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  • The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Two Quotes
  • That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems. The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated. It's financial of course, but it's also the lifestyle choices. The more money people have the further away from each other they often want to be. So while I loved not being hungry and having new gear, etc. I missed the sounds of my neighbors and the kind of generosity people who are struggling together often show.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adrian Matejka Quotes , Struggle Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : A. E. Hotchner Quotes , Reading Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Writing Quotes , Sleep Quotes
  • I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Writing Quotes , Drug Quotes