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You Know Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
- You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make…
- 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 best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every…
- You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
- 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…
- I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.
- Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.
- You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
- When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . Then…
- You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference.…
- Always quit for the day when you know what you want to do next.
- In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the…
- I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
- All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
- 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…
- 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…
- I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write…
- You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.
- There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that?…
- We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.
- Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that…
- There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you…
- 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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