Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing Quotes, Thinking Quotes

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

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The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.

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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

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Character is plot, plot is character.

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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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Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

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There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

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The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.

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Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

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I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.

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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

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God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty - be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards!

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You can stroke people with words.

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I could write stories just as rotten.

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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

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Writing is the painting of the voice.

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I'm very interested in compassion - compassion for oneself and others. I write about very complicated characters and experiences and try to do it without judging the character or the action.

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I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.

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