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Stories Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
- All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.
- 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…
- There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It…
- Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.
- Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.
- The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.
- Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.
- You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it,…
- 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…
- Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
- After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.
- I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together
- I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it…
- No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.
- But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and…
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