Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing Quotes, Action Quotes

Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

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Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

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You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

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We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.

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The best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries. Everything else is relative levels of hell.

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No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.

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No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

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I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

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Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

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Ability is nothing without opportunity.

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The further you go in writing the more alone you are. Most of your best and oldest friends die. Others move away. You do not see them except rarely, but you write and have much the same contact with them as though you were together at the café in the old days. You exchange comic, sometimes cheerfully obscene and irresponsible letters, and it is almost as good as talking. But you are more alone because that is how you must work and the time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you feel you have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

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If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

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It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

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I primarily write nonfiction. Research, reflection, and spending time with ideas are important to me. So, this is how I spend most of my time writing - in thought.

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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

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The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, but something that sits between writing and music

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The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world.

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To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

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I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

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