Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing Quotes, Goes On Quotes

I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

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This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even now as I write they are leading old John Brown to execution in Virginia for attempting to rescue slaves! This is sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind which will come soon!

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If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.

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A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will. This is a paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can't tell the dancer from the dance. It happens when we trust the intelligence of the universe in the same way that an athlete or a dancer trusts the superior intelligence of the body.

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Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]

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In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.

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Nothing any good isn't hard.

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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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A writer wastes nothing.

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A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.

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I hate commas in the wrong places.

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I'm uncomfortable trying to rush change of perception, except to the extent that I'm going to write a book.

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Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

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Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.

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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

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I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from.

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Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.

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I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

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Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.

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