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Ernest Hemingway
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one...
“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
“I had an inheritance from my father,It was the moon and the sun.And though I roam all over the world,The spending of it...
“it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Kno...
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
“The first draft of anything is shit.”
“All thinking men are atheists.”
“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”
“If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.”
“Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is very important.”
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
ernest hemingway
“Courage is grace under pressure.”
“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
“There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then b...
“Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty an...
“There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.”
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are specia...
“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? Rui...
“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man fro...
“The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.”
“How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today...
“I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. Y...
