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."

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"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

"If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed."

Ernest Hemingway

"There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein."

Ernest Hemingway

"Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is very important."

Ernest Hemingway

"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. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil."

Ernest Hemingway

"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 and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing."

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

"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 from another."

Ernest Hemingway

"When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature."

Ernest Hemingway Death in the Afternoon

"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."

Ernest Hemingway

"The fish is my friend too... I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought"

Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea

"The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it."

Ernest Hemingway

"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’s never done."

Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls

"The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing."

Ernest Hemingway

"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."

Ernest Hemingway

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."

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

"Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it."

Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea

"“There isnt always an explanation for everything.”"

Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self."

Ernest Hemingway

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