“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.” — Hemingway, Ernest Copy Share Image
“There is no lonelier man than a writer when he's writing, except the suicide.” — Hemingway, Ernest Copy Share Image
“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.” — Hemingway, Ernest Copy Share Image
“But, you say, there is very little conversation in this book. Why isn't there more dialoge? What we want in a book by this citizen is people talking; that is all he knows how to do and now he doesn't do it. The fellow is no philosopher, no savant, an incompetent zoologist, he drinks too much and cannot punctuate readily… — Hemingway, Ernest Copy Share
“When George Plimpton asked Ernest Hemingway what the best training for an aspiring writer would be in a 1954 interview, Hem replied, “Let’s say that he should go out and hang himself because he finds that writing well is impossibly difficult. Then he should be cut down without mercy and forced by his own self to write as well as… — Hemingway, Ernest Copy Share
“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There… — Hemingway, Ernest Copy Share Image
“Let's drop the war.' 'It's very hard. There's no place to drop it.” — Hemingway, Ernest Copy Share Image
