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Wells Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
- Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult…
- Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not…
- To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was…
- How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is…
- Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are…
- You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
- I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else…
- 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…
- Write as well as you can and finish what you start.
- There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things…
- A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have…
- I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of…
- You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot…
- In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt…
- He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave…
- This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it
- it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know…
- We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
- Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well
- 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…
- All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.
- When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.
- The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran…
- I loved her and I loved no one else and we had a lovely magic time while we were alone. I worked well and we…
More Wells Quotes
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and… — Neil Armstrong