Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing Quotes, Training Quotes

My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

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As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

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There's no way to learn how to write a hit song. There's no formula for it. You just have to have it inside of you.

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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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For me, if the writing and - by extension - the subject matter and the characters are all good, it doesn't matter if it's film or TV. Each medium has great things going for it.

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When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.

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I'm just writing love songs. I'm not trying to be pop. I'm not trying to be jazz. I'm not trying to be anything. I'm just writing love songs. And everyone loves a love song.

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Live it up so you can write it down.

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And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

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Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.

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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.

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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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We read often with as much talent as we write.

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I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.

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I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.

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In a way, I was safe writing

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The way to write well is to live intensely.

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No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.

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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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When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout, and it is this, which I take and work with. My films come from my need to say a particular thing at a particular time. The beginning of any film for me is this need to express something. It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.

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