Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing Quotes, Water Quotes

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.

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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.

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The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

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The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

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You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.

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Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

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If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.

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I hate commas in the wrong places.

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Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.

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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

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When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street life was trivial and commonplace. If you would know their tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them.

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I write because I need to share my thoughts with the audience.

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Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.

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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

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Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.

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This is going to sound nuts but it took me forever to figure out why I'd stopped writing poetry - I mean, I went about a decade where I wrote very little poetry and I thought it was because I was doing a weekly blog. And then when we moved, I reconfigured my writing desk. The previous one had had very little space to write by hand. And suddenly, the poetry was gushing!

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We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

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Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.

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