Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing Quotes, Story Writers Quotes

Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

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It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every body allows that the talent of writing is particularly female. Nature might have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.

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

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In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.

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O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.

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Most of screenplay writing is deciding which voices you want to listen to and take on board.

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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

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A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society.

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To write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.

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

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My grandmother has kept all of his stuff in a drawer. This one notebook was particularly chilling. He's [howard Brookner] writing to his parents knowing he has a death sentence; his movies are how he'll live on.

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The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.

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Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

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Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.

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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.

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I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross: that it's to be pulled through only in a breathless anguish.

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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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One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.

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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.

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Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible

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