Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing Quotes, Trying Quotes

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.

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I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

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Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall.

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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

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Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

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I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.

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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

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In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.

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Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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Movies are like writing history with lightning.

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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.

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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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I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it's a big effort these days. So I often write back.

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To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.

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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem. By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself. I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that. So to try to truly render the kind of economic and racial inequity I grew up in, I had to find a way to be more honest about what happened. And it wasn't fun to write, even though the poems aren't 100% autobiographical.

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Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.

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You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.

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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

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