Ernest Hemingway Quotes

There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.

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All bad writers are in love with the epic.

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Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together." Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me. Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?

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Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

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I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?

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The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.

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A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

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My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.

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Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

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Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

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The only kind of writing is rewriting.

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You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.

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Write as well as you can and finish what you start.

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I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. ... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.

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We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

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I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you

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You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that.

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Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .

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You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

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