There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A writer's problem does not change. It is always how to write truly and having found out what is true to project… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
i believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try and make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after the first light as possible.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
On the 'Star,' you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, “Do not worry. You have always written before and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“if I had waited long enough I probably never would have written anything at all since there is a tendency when you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply? — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is nothing to writing, you just sit at a type writer and bleed. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“There was no wind, and, outside now of the warm air of the cave, heavy with smoke of both tobacco and charcoal, with the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“We drove out along the coast road. There was the green of the headlands, the white, red-roofed villas, patches of forest, and the ocean… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“You find everything on earth at Harry's." "Yes, my Colonel. Except, possibly, happiness." "I'll damn well find happiness, too," the Colonel assured him. "Happiness,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“No. It's bad for me. Cole Porter wrote the words and the music. This knowledge that you're going mad for me.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“everything kills everything else in some way. Fishing kills me exactly as it keeps me alive. The boy keeps me alive, he thought. I… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
