Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Farewell Quotes, Writing Quotes

I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.

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I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

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I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that.

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Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

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And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute love instead. Love, the poet has said, is a woman's whole existence.

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The key to writing for Richard (Pryor) was to just push his buttons and then know when to push the buttons on your cassette recorder. You'd get him started, then surreptitiously start recording when he got inspired and started walking around the room and improvising in character. Then you'd get it all transcribed and take credit for it.

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Having books published is very destructive to writing.

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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

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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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Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.

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After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.

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There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it.

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I don't think you ever write a song with any intention except the song's about such and such per say ... we've never written a song and thought 'oh it'd be great if in this part this happened in the audience'.

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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

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It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

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It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

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This makes his writing very pleasing to read: João Gilberto Noll pays attention to detail, but only to certain details. And it's never easy to foresee which details will send the narrator or the plot in an unsuspected direction.

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My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

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I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

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