Bell Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“Ask not for whom the bell tolls”

— Anonymous

ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee

— John Donne

“and the bells kept on tolling, tolling as they gathered,”

— Patricia Bray

A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.

— William Faulkner

From one bell all the bells toll.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“When the bells have rung on this life I hope that I, a mere nobody of importance, will have helped to better one soul.…

— Anonymous

“ With whom do you believe your lot is cast? From where does your strength come? I think somehow, somewhere every poem of mine…

— Adrienne Rich

To know whom to write for is to know how to write.

— Virginia Woolf

Dilemmas, on top of necessities, are the mother of all inventions.

— Myron Sta Ana

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

— Leslie Fiedler

“The lesson of bells is that no work is worth finishing, so why care too deeply about anything? Years of bells will condition all…

— John Taylor Gatto

All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life.

— Nancy Friday