Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing Quotes, People Quotes

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that.

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I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.

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The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.

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For I must write to The Times tonight, and save the world from sin.

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I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

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Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

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Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.

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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.

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It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.

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Ability is nothing without opportunity.

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I need to tell the things that are important but which don't make sense in terms of the narrative, things that would destroy symmetry or narrative pace. This is my personal belief about what it means to write nonfiction.

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You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may be. And if it can’t stand applying pencil to paper, you’d better think it through some more. And if you can’t write an intelligent answer to those questions, don’t do it.

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Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

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But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.

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It took me 40 years to write my first book.

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I write with one hand, but I fight with both.

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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

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