Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Book Quotes, Writing Quotes

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

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Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study which I decided deliberately four or five years ago to make, next to my poetry, the most important pursuit of my life...If I had not made magic my constant study I could not have written a single word of my Blake book, nor would The Countess Kathleen have ever come to exist. The mystical life is the center of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.

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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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We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

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I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

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I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

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The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.

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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

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I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!

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Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night.

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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

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That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door.

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A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

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I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me.

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It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.

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Write anything you want because we'll never be heard from again.

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it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

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Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

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Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.

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