Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Loneliness Quotes, Writing Quotes

Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

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The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

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It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.

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You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.

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In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.

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In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

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How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.

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Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.

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How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.

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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

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Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

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Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective

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

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The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.

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He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.

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

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But did thee feel the earth move?

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I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.

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War is not won by victory.

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