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What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don't worry.
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I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.
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A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.
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Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.
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You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.
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I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.
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I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.
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I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.
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The further you go in writing the more alone you are.
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How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!
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It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.
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There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.
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When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.
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But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.
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Try and write straight English never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.
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Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago
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What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?
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No that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.
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