Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing Quotes, Fate Quotes

All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.

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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

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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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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.

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The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.

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Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.

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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

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I think age is really changing how I write and the themes that I connect with. But there are also things I'm really intrigued about.

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I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every day. I needed a contact with different things, like nature, for example. I cannot be in front of a computer trying to tell a story.

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I think it's more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle. It's difficult because it forces you to really get creative.

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I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.

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Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.

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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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I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity.

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Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.

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Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone else has been so caught up and so pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before. Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories - each time in a new disguise - maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Moving Quotes , Writing Quotes

to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.

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