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Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Ernest Hemingway quotes about writing

American Novelist, Writer July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961

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I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death. Ernest Hemingway
I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced... Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure..."
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Ernest Hemingway
But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and... Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a..."
Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something. Ernest Hemingway
(paraphrased from Tim Powers) "My style might seem awkward, but I'm only trying to write down the things in the scene that I think the reader should know. Ernest Hemingway
I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works. Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Write hard and clear about what hurts."
Write hard and clear about what hurts. Ernest Hemingway
The hardest thing in the world to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn... Ernest Hemingway
There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make. Ernest Hemingway
I had already seen the end of fall come through boyhood, youth and young manhood, and in one place you could write about it better than in another. That was called transplanting yourself, I thought, and it could be as necessary with people as with other sorts of growing things. Ernest Hemingway
I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.) Ernest Hemingway
I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. Ernest Hemingway
Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading. Ernest Hemingway
If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water. Ernest Hemingway

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