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The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips they were closed tight.
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Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.
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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
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Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.
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Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.
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Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).
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Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.
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The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
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Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.
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In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.
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And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.
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You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
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But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.
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Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?
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Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.
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My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.
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(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.
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The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.
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