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Work Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
- 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,…
- The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no…
- 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…
- The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The…
- Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.
- Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.
- When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and…
- Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make…
- It is very bad for (an artist) to talk about how he (creates). It is not the (artist's) province to explain or to run guided…
- You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you…
- 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…
- Never confuse movement with action.
- If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of…
- The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something…
- I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the…
- I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think…
- Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
- Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is…
- You must be prepared to work always without applause.
- Work could cure almost anything
- Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally,…
- I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to…
- Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows…
- All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when…
- Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more…
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach