Writer Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

The writer's job is to tell the truth,

— Ernest Hemingway

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

— Ernest Hemingway

“I drink to make people more interesting," Ernest Hemingway.”

— Ernest Hemingway

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

— Ernest Hemingway

“The first draft of anything is shit.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“The first draft is always shit.”

— Ernest Hemingway

The further you go in writing the more alone you are.

— Ernest Hemingway

All bad writers are in love with the epic.

— Ernest Hemingway

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.

— Ernest Hemingway

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write…

— Ernest Hemingway

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

— Ernest Hemingway

Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.

— Ernest Hemingway

It's none of their business that you had to learn how to write. Let them think that you were born that way.

— Ernest Hemingway

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

— Ernest Hemingway

Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.

— Ernest Hemingway

“There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.”

— Ernest Hemingway

When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after the first light as possible.…

— Ernest Hemingway

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There…

— Ernest Hemingway

i believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try and make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then…

— Ernest Hemingway

In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the…

— Ernest Hemingway

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you…

— Ernest Hemingway

On the 'Star,' you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will…

— Ernest Hemingway

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help…

— Ernest Hemingway

Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing… For he does his work alone and…

— Ernest Hemingway

I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what…

— Ernest Hemingway

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading…

— Ernest Hemingway

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be…

— Ernest Hemingway

It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after…

— Ernest Hemingway

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his…

— Ernest Hemingway

How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of…

— Ernest Hemingway

When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There…

— Ernest Hemingway

“If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows and the…

— Ernest Hemingway

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. If a writer can…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing truly what you really felt, rather than…

— Ernest Hemingway

“When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There…

— Ernest Hemingway

“First, there must be talent, much talent. Talent such as Kipling had. Then there must be discipline. The discipline of Flaubert. Then…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total of knowledge which is there at the disposal of the next writer…

— Ernest Hemingway

When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There…

— Ernest Hemingway

The further you go in writing the more alone you are. Most of your best and oldest friends die. Others move away.…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I even read aloud the part of the novel I had rewritten, which is about as low as a writer can get…

— Ernest Hemingway