Completeness Quote by Ernest Hemingway

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.…

— Ernest Hemingway

“If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if…

— Ernest Hemingway

“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water'.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“This was omitted on my new theory that you could omit anything if you knew that you omitted and the omitted part would strengthen…

— Ernest Hemingway

“There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“A story then...is water trying to get back to sea level”

— Henry Kitchell Webster

“Seeing the iceberg hadn’t stopped the Titanic from sinking”

— C.J. Roberts

“as though if I looked hard enough, there would be revealed in the grain or the watermark of the paper itself the elucidation of…

— Diane Setterfield

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

— Margaret Atwood

“The water was a full unknowable world.”

— Lewis Robinson

“There is no ending, no neatness... where water is concerned. It is wild, febrile, kind, ambiguous; it is dark and carries the mud, and…

— Lauren Groff