Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Lonely Quotes, Writing Quotes

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

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I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.

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I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.

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A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing.

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Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.

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Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life - and maybe even please a few strangers.

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Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.

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I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I know is that I see my readers creating a critical mass so we can at least understand this world in a different way.

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If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you - it will come out of that wall.

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It's exciting for people to define who they are in relation to what I write - whether it be by loving or hating it.

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Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet.

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The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.

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Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.

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I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

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I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive.

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Having books published is very destructive to writing.

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Where are they written?" "In the world around us. Merely be attentive to what happens in your life, and you will discover where, every moment of the day, He hides His words and His will. Seek to do as He asks: this alone is the reason you are in the world." "If I discover it, I'll write it on clay tablets." "Do so. But write them, above all, in your heart; there they can neither burned nor destroyed, and you will take them wherever you go.

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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.

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