Ernest-hemingway Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“For God sake write and don't worry about what the boys will say nor whether it will be a masterpiece nor what. I write…

— Ernest Hemingway

“A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one.”

— Carl Sandburg

“One of the most necessary things when you're writing? The waste basket.”

— Enkelejd Lamaj

“It is not up to the writer to create a masterpiece. That is what readers do.”

— Bart J. Gilbertson

You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

— Ernest Hemingway

“All we can do is write, but its up to the reader to decide if we wrote masterpieces or empty silliness, and there is…

— Uma Nnenna

The wastebasket is a writer's best friend.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Nothing is worse than to finish a good shit, then reach over and find the toilet paper container empty.”

— Charles Bukowski

“For twenty years I have sat alone at a desk tinkering with sentences and then sending them out, and for most of my literary…

— Rebecca Solnit

“The wastepaper basket is the writer’s best friend. ”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“No one gives a shit if you write a book or not.”

— Jeffrey Ford

“I may be a shit writer,’ I remember him saying once, ‘but I’m richer than any of the good ones.”

— William Boyd