Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing Quotes, Comfort Quotes

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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The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.

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Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.

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Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.

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But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.

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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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I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.

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The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

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Write as well as you can and finish what you start.

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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.

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To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.

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Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any better when I don’t write. On the contrary, it is far worse, wholly unbearable, and inevitably ends in madness. This is, of course, only on the assumption that I am a writer even when I don’t write - which is indeed the case; and a non-writing writer is, in fact, a monster courting insanity.

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I hate to write, but I love to have written.

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There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.

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The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.

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The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.

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In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.

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The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world.

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Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.

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