Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing Quotes, Night Quotes

At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.

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I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

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I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.

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

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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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One cat just leads to another.

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Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.

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The smallest coffins are the heaviest.

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I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?

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I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

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I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me.

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Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.

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There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.

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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.

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When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

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There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

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Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey

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Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

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War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.

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To be successful in writing, use short sentences.

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