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If a writer of prose knows eno...

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.

Ernest Hemingway 937 quotes

Writing is something that you ...

Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.

Ernest Hemingway 937 quotes

When I am working on a book or...

When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. . . .When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have e made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.

Ernest Hemingway 937 quotes

I rewrote the ending of 'Farew...

I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.

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The parody is the last refuge ...

The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.

Ernest Hemingway 937 quotes

Having books published is very...

Having books published is very destructive to writing.

Ernest Hemingway 937 quotes

The best way to become a write...

The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.

Ernest Hemingway 937 quotes

A writer's problem does not ch...

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.

Ernest Hemingway 937 quotes

Real seriousness in regard to ...

Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

Ernest Hemingway 937 quotes

Writing, at its best, is a lon...

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

Ernest Hemingway 937 quotes

For a true writer each book sh...

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Ernest Hemingway 937 quotes

The good parts of a book may b...

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.

Ernest Hemingway 937 quotes

Eschew the monumental. Shun th...

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

Ernest Hemingway 937 quotes

Don't get discouraged because ...

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.

Ernest Hemingway 937 quotes

The best way is to read it all...

The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.

Ernest Hemingway 937 quotes

The best way is always to stop...

The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.

Ernest Hemingway 937 quotes

Wearing down seven number two ...

Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

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Now he would never write the t...

Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.

Ernest Hemingway 937 quotes

Maybe...you'll fall in love wi...

Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again.'
'Hell,' I said, 'I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?'
'Yes. I want to ruin you.'
'Good,' I said. 'That's what I want too.

Ernest Hemingway 937 quotes

I was young and not gloomy and...

I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time...

Ernest Hemingway 937 quotes

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