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Ernest Hemingway Quotes about Writing - Page 3

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Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Story Writers, Details

You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Important, Paper

Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.837, Simon and Schuster

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Doe, World

Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Challenges, Done

Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.419, Simon and Schuster

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

Ernest Hemingway

Powerful, Spring, Writing

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Good And Bad, Left

Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.363, Simon and Schuster

The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Thinking, Fool

Worry destroys the ability to write.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Worry, Ability

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

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

Book, Reading, Writing

If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Ifs

Winner Take Nothing "Fathers and Sons" (1933)

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

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Details, Finished

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

Dog, Writing, Differences

Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.712, Simon and Schuster

All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Political, Luck

"Old Newsman Writes: A Letter from Cuba". Esquire, December 1934.

The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Two, Long

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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

Ernest Hemingway

Business, Writing, Thinking

"With Hemingway". Book by Arnold Samuelson, 1984.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Worry, Vices

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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Vices, Pleasure

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

The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.

Ernest Hemingway

Life, Cheating, Writing

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.

Ernest Hemingway

Farewell, Writing, Arms

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

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

Ernest Hemingway

Reading, Writing, Pleasure

Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.120, Univ. Press of Mississippi

I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. ... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.

Ernest Hemingway

Dirty, School, Writing

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

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. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, People, Enough

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The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

Ernest Hemingway

Inspiring, Writing, Finishing It

Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.

Ernest Hemingway

Love, Book, Writing

Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.785, Simon and Schuster

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