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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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Ernest Hemingway quote: "When writing a novel a writer should create living people;..."
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. Ernest Hemingway
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. Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway quote: "There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great..."
There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing! Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway quote: "What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written..."
What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done. Ernest Hemingway
it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply. Ernest Hemingway
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges. Ernest Hemingway
In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused. Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Some writers are only born to help another writer write one..."
Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence. Ernest Hemingway
Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do. Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Write drunk; edit sober."
Write drunk; edit sober. Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway quote: "All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the..."
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway quote: "The author must write what he has to say, not speak it."
The author must write what he has to say, not speak it. Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway quote: "A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it."
A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it. Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway quote: "The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it."
The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it. Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway quote: "The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it."
The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it. Ernest Hemingway

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