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Ernest Hemingway Quotes about Writing - Page 2

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The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell

The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Trying, Way

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

Ernest Hemingway

Funny, Book, Writing

Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

Write hard and clear about what hurts.

Ernest Hemingway

Hurt, Writing, Chaos

There is no rule on how to write.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing

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

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

Ernest Hemingway

Cheer, Book, Writing

Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.

Ernest Hemingway

Work, Writing, Done

Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Age, Difficulty

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Trying, Wonderful

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Done, Letters

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

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

Ernest Hemingway

Pain, Writing, Epic

Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.352, Simon and Schuster

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

Writing, People, Enough

Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.114, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Feel Better, Feels

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

Ernest Hemingway

Book, Writing, Weather

All bad writers are in love with the epic.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Epic

Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

The best writing is certainly when you are in love

Ernest Hemingway

Writing

Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.114, Univ. Press of Mississippi

I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Thinking, Paris

Ernest Hemingway (1992). “Complete Poems”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press

Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Ill Health, Worry

Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.12, Melville House

Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Preparation, Training

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Islands in the Stream: A Novel”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

The further you go in writing the more alone you are.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Our Words, Afternoon

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2231, Simon and Schuster

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

Ernest Hemingway

Lonely, Writing, Lonely Life

Ernest Hemingway, A. E. Hotchner, Albert J. DeFazio (2005). “Dear Papa, Dear Hotch: The Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway and A.E. Hotchner”, p.6, University of Missouri Press

I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead.

Ernest Hemingway

Believe, Writing, Two

"Selected Letters, 1917-1961".

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Thinking, Doe

Quoted in A. E. Hotchner, Papa Hemingway (1966)

Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).

Ernest Hemingway

Time, Writing, Thinking

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

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

Ernest Hemingway

Inspiring, Writing, Judging

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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