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Ernest Hemingway Quotes about Writing - Page 4

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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.

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

Writing, Typewriters, Hands

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

Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Worry, Moveable Feast

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.

Ernest Hemingway

Ocean, Writing, Men

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But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. 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.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Thinking, Paris

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Hard Times, Time Keeping

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Boxing

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

Ernest Hemingway

Travel, Writing, Mind

Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.700, Simon and Schuster

The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

Ernest Hemingway

War, Writing, Life And Death

Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

Ernest Hemingway

Book, Writing, Sacred

Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Water, Waiting

Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.14, Melville House

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Trying, Principles

Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.27, Melville House

There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Sorrow, Progress

Ernest Hemingway (2002). “The Garden of Eden”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Stories, Lines

You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Simple, Thinking

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

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Thinking, Complicated

Ernest Hemingway (2002). “The Garden of Eden”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Thinking, Modesty

Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Men, Done

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.1086, Simon and Schuster

Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Helping, Born

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.3038, Simon and Schuster

The only kind of writing is rewriting.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Rewriting, Kind

It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop it all that I could but there have been many abuses by people I trusted. You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, People, Abuse

Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.805, Simon and Schuster

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

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

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

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