Ernest-hemingway Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“In so many things I loved I was sadly insufficiently gifted and driven. But writing I could plod along with -- and no one…

— Lorrie Moore

“Of course I'm excited about the Nobel. But I am passionate about my research. Passion is really important for anything you do; it's a…

— Michael Levitt

“In the end, it's not your Nobel Prize you're thinking of, it's not your three National Book Awards, and all that. It's your sins…

— Martin Amis

“I learned that writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don’t get the thing you want the most.”

— Lang Leav

“If you only enjoy the journey of writing, that's reward enough.”

— Deray Ogden

“Writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don't get the thing you want the most.”

— Lang leav

“The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to…

— John Steinbeck

“A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by…

— Marilynne Robinson

In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in respect and…

— John Steinbeck

“My reason for being an author? Because I love to write - it fulfills me. But the fact that I entertain others by doing…

— Chasta Schneider

“Though I have been busy, perhaps overbusy, all my life, it seems to me now that I have accomplished little that matters, that the…

— Wallace Stegner