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
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
What did I know best that I had not written about and Lost? What did I know about truly and care for… — 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
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. — 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
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
“After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do… — 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
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutable as those of flight,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“For a writer to put his own intellectual musings, which he might sell for a low price as essays, into the mouths… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
He's a great writer. If I didn't think so I wouldn't have tried to kill him... I was the champ and when… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The only writing that was any good was what you made up, what you imagined. That made everything come true. Everything good… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“[Imagination] is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. — 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
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. — 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
People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is nothing to writing, you just sit at a type writer and bleed. — 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
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
“write. There was going to be everything that a man needed to write except to be alone. Zelda” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector. — 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 Image
“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 Image
“It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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 Image
Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
![“[Imagination] is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine. If he gets so he can imagine truly enough people will think that the things he relates all really happened and that he is just reporting.” quote by Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/552/ernest-hemingway-83_imagination_imagination-is-the-one-thing-beside-hone_3115951.jpg)
