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I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Wish, Done
Ernest Hemingway (1981). “Selected Letters, 1917-1961”

Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Giving, Perspective

Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

Ernest Hemingway
Life Is, Operations, Anesthetics

Because we would not wear any clothes because it was so hot and the windows open and the swallows flying over the roofs of the houses and when it was dark afterward and you went to the window very small bats hunting over the houses and close down over the trees and we would drink capri and the door locked and it hot and only a sheet and the whole night and we would both love each other all night in the hot night in Milan. That was how it ought to be.

Ernest Hemingway
Dark, Night, Hunting

But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope).

Ernest Hemingway
Tonight, Today, Tomorrow
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2701, Simon and Schuster

Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

Ernest Hemingway
Art, Philosophy, Men
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.401, Simon and Schuster

In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.

Ernest Hemingway
Mistake, Style, Easy

The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own.

Ernest Hemingway
Art, Men, Use
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2248, Simon and Schuster

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

Ernest Hemingway
Time, Doubt, Half
Ernest Hemingway (1944). “Hemingway”

You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.

Ernest Hemingway
Father, Book, Writing

As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notion of glory, nor if he wins far enough, will he find anything within himself.

Ernest Hemingway
Wisdom, Winning, Ease

Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Want

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

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Way, Best Way

I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.

Ernest Hemingway
Grateful, Different, Another Chance
Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.113, Univ. Press of Mississippi

For him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere, always and forever to nowhere, heavy on the elbows in the earth to nowhere, dark, never any end to nowhere, hung on all time always to unknowing nowhere, this time and again for always to nowhere, now not to be borne once again always and to nowhere, now beyond all bearing up, up, up and into nowhere, suddenly, scaldingly, holdingly all nowhere gone and time absolutely still and they were both there, time having stopped and he felt the earth move out and away from under them.

Ernest Hemingway
Moving, Dark, Forever
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.

Ernest Hemingway
Stupidity, Should, Accomplishing Something

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Speak, Should
Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.

Ernest Hemingway
Wisdom, Truth, Honesty

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

Ernest Hemingway
Life, Night, Emotion
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.19, Hamilton Books

Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Talking, Cracks
Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.111, Univ. Press of Mississippi

But don't try to find an untroublesome woman. She will dull out on you. What makes a woman good in bed makes it impossible for her to live alone.

Ernest Hemingway
Trying, Bed, Dull
Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .

Ernest Hemingway
Sea, Land, Walks

You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it. Hold it tight.

Ernest Hemingway
Men, Needs, Life Is
Ernest Hemingway (1970). “Islands in the stream”, Scribner Book Company

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

Ernest Hemingway
Satisfaction, Poverty, Bother
Ernest Hemingway (1996). “A Moveable Feast”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.

Ernest Hemingway
Giving, Advice, Good Advice
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Dangerous Summer”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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