Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing Quotes, Cities Quotes

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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Look, then, into thine heart, and write!

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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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People think that I only write about homosexuality, but that's not true.

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Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

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I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like.

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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.

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Write anything you want because we'll never be heard from again.

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There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.

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You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

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After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper.

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What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.

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My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions of wonder, beauty, and adventurous expectancy which are conveyed to me by certain sights (scenic, architectural, atmospheric, etc.), ideas, occurrences, and images encountered in art and literature.

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What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?

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The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.

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Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

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Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.

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The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world.

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Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.

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Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.

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