Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Real Quotes, Writing Quotes

Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

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But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their whole world, and stories about what it is like to be married, and plays about the important problems of modern times. Tommy, being only ten years old, was not able to do harm on this large and handsome scale.

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Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

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The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

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Having books published is very destructive to writing.

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I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.

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This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

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It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.

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There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.

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The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man . . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages.

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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn't sustain my interest.

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The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

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As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God, you do not! I believe you have never written to order, by the yard, and have never experienced that hellish torture.

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Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

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I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.

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When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.

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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

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The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.

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