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The shortest answer is doing the thing.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Ernest Hemingway
Inspiring, Answers, Literature

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

Ernest Hemingway
Inspiring, Wicked, Literature
Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

Ernest Hemingway
Literature, Subjects

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

Ernest Hemingway
Book, Usa, Literature
Green Hills of Africa ch. 1 (1935)

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

Ernest Hemingway
Inspiring, Men, Literature

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
Writing, Rocks, Literature
Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.

Ernest Hemingway
America, And Love, Literature

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Ernest Hemingway
Literature, Architecture, Baroque Music
Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

Ernest Hemingway
Inspiring, Tolls, Literature
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.505, Simon and Schuster

Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

Ernest Hemingway
Crazy, Literature, Pounds
"The New York Post" Newspaper, January 24, 1957.

I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.

Ernest Hemingway
Horse, Fall, Literature
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.97, Hamilton Books

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