Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing Quotes, Shining Quotes

In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.

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Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

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Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.

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

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This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.

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When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!

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I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the library, who pulls down a book and it opens to a poem. I am also very conscious of what it means to read these poems aloud.

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Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

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The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

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Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

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Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective

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Write to me frequently & the longest letters possible; never mind whether you have facts or no to communicate; fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

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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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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.

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A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

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After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.

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