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Writers 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- All bad writers are in love with the epic.
- Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.
- Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.
- The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.
- 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…
- As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of…
- If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg…
- As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
- A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.
- Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.
- (World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the…
- 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…
- 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…
- The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had…
- A writer's problem does not change. It is always how to write truly and having found out what is true to project it in such…
- It's none of their business that you had to learn how to write. Let them think that you were born that way.
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