Hemingway's Writing Quotes
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All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.
— Ernest Hemingway,
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,
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,
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Bad writing is better than never writing. Bad writing can be improved, but if you never write, you'll never improve.
— Caroline Hemingway
Easy reading is hard writing,
— Ernest Hemingway,
Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.
— Ernest Hemingway,
My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.
— Ernest Hemingway,
As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.
— Ernest 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,
The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.
— Ernest Hemingway,
The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.
— Ernest Hemingway,
There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!
— Ernest Hemingway,
Scott took LITERATURE so solemnly. He never understood that it was just writing as well as you can and finishing what you start.
— Ernest Hemingway,
The first draft of anything is shit.
— Ernest Hemingway,
In order to write about life first you must live it.
— Ernest Hemingway,
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,
Write as well as you can and finish what you start.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.
— Ernest Hemingway,
What you don't write is often more important than what you do
— Ernest Hemingway,
The further you go in writing the more alone you are.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.
— Ernest Hemingway,
What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel.
— Yngwie Malmsteen
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?
— Ernest Hemingway,
Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.
— Ernest Hemingway,
The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.
— Ernest Hemingway,
There is no rule on how to write.
— Ernest Hemingway,
It is why I bother with you," he said. "I think you write absolutely truly and that is very rare. So I would like you to know some things.
— Ernest Hemingway,
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,
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job.
— Ernest Hemingway,
My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
— Ernest Hemingway,
There is no lonelier man than a writer when he's writing, except the suicide.
— Ernest Hemingway,
At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.
— Ernest Hemingway,
The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Writing is a hard business, but nothing makes you feel better
— Ernest Hemingway,
Good. Coffee is good for you. It's the caffeine in it. Caffeine, we are here. Caffeine puts a man on her horse and a woman in his grave.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.
— Stephen King
If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.
— Ernest Hemingway,
People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.
— Tiffany Madison
The only kind of writing is rewriting.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Remember to get the weather in your damn bookweather is very important. — Ernest Hemingway,
Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters ... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Hemingway himself and Hemingway's writing were both brilliant, brilliant cocktails.
— Lesley M.M. Blume
Writing is easy...all you have to do is sit at the typewriter and bleed. -- Ernest Hemingway
— Dana Wayne
Worry destroys the ability to write.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Hemingway was very sparse in his writing. Kris Kristofferson is like that. He can take four words and say it all.
— Todd Snider
My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.
— Ernest Hemingway,
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
— Ernest Hemingway,
The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.
— Ernest Hemingway,
For me, all writing storytelling and style
gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order. — Dennis R. Miller
You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged. — Ernest Hemingway,
Those who say they want to be writers, and aren't writing, don't.
— Ernest Hemingway,
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.
— William Faulkner
The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.
— Ernest Hemingway,
It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Tell him I think writing is lousy," Bill said. "Go on, tell him. Tell him I'm ashamed of being a writer.
— Ernest Hemingway,
There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.
— Ernest Hemingway,
There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.
— Ernest Hemingway,
To be successful in writing, use short sentences.
— Ernest Hemingway,
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Ernest Hemingway talked about how writing is opening up a vein and bleeding onto the page. You prepared to do that?
— Craig Lancaster
If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?Y.C.: An unhappy childhood. — Ernest Hemingway,
I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you
— Ernest Hemingway,
The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Easy writing makes hard reading.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Good writing is good conversation, only more so.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Live it up so you can write it down.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs.
— Yannis Philippakis
I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.
— Ernest Hemingway,
The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I always shot scorpions with the .22 pistol.
— Ernest Hemingway,
