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Book Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
- In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about…
- If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so,…
- There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the…
- When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one…
- Having books published is very destructive to writing.
- For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try…
- The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his…
- Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at…
- It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many…
- Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.
- I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.
- I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and…
- For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.
- You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's…
- Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of…
- When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after the first light as possible. There is no…
- In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.
- All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
- An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
- There is no friend as loyal as a book.
- All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
- A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
- I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we…
- All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will…
- If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw…
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