Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Time Quotes, Writing Quotes

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.

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Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

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No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.

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I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.

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I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.

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You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.

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I feel possessive about stories I write in Spanish and so I usually end up translating those into English myself.

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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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

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In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.

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A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.

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Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.

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I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name.

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

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You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

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I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

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I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

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