Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing Quotes, Water Quotes

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.

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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.

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

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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

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You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.

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How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.

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Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

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No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

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you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

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My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.

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The shortest answer is doing the thing.

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I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.

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Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.

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Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.

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It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

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I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.

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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

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To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.

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

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