Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing Quotes, Thinking Quotes

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

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I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.

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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

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To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

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When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.

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Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

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I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

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The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.

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A poem begins with a lump in the throat

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Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

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It seems the only way to write a half decent book is to worry oneself sick on an hourly basis that one is producing a complete disaster.

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The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

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I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that.

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I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

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I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.

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I only write to understand myself better... I don't try to show how intelligent or how cultivated I am, I just try to share my soul. Sharing is part of life.

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The process of re-writing and writing and re-writing means that you may have a brilliant phrase, but over time it distills and distorts and changes.

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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

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