Stuff Quote by Ernest Hemingway Download Open image “You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.” — Ernest Hemingway ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Stuff Throwing Wells Writing Writing well
There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“A well-known writer said writing is like getting sick to your stomach. You throw up and clean up afterward.” — Maija Rhee Devine Copy Share Image
If you write your best, even if you have to throw it out later, it's not wasted effort. You're getting better. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
If you think I write stories where it is all right to just be good enough, are you kidding? You think I have a… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
I've realized the most effective way to write, for me, is knowing what to throw away. — Youth Lagoon Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“There was no wind, and, outside now of the warm air of the cave, heavy with smoke of both tobacco and charcoal, with the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“We drove out along the coast road. There was the green of the headlands, the white, red-roofed villas, patches of forest, and the ocean… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Since I worked with Danny Boyle before on Slumdog Millionaire, we have great success and everything. So, when I first got the script and… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I had sort of had a 21st birthday when I was 17, 18 years old living in Japan. I had all of that stuff… — Sarah Wright Copy Share Image
I get very anti-social, depressed and irritable with people. I don't have time for them. I can't make phone calls and stuff. I just… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see. — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
I've never even been into those supplements or any of that. I don't even drink energy shakes. I'm not into that kind of stuff.… — Paul Pierce Copy Share Image
I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
I always had a sort of niggling regret that we didn't come do stuff in America. — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
It's something he used to say when he was happy. It could be a very, very simple day. We might be sitting out on… — Jennifer Grant Copy Share Image