Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

"It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't."
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"It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't."
Ernest Hemingway
"I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way."
Ernest Hemingway
"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
Ernest Hemingway
"If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work."
Ernest Hemingway
"Religion is the opium of the poor"
Ernest Hemingway
"The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it."
Ernest Hemingway
"The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not."
Ernest Hemingway
"Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over."
Ernest Hemingway
"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it."
Ernest Hemingway
"You know you’re writing well when you’re throwing good stuff into the wastebasket."
Ernest Hemingway
"Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day."
Ernest Hemingway
"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader"
Ernest Hemingway
"You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love."
Ernest Hemingway
"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you."
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
"What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?"
Ernest Hemingway
"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."
Ernest Hemingway
"There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein."
Ernest Hemingway
"It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better."
Ernest Hemingway
"People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars."
Ernest Hemingway
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