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The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.
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Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.
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Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.
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Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
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And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No
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You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.
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I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me.
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A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.
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I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.
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Before you quit, you have to try
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The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.
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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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You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.
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The shortest answer is doing the thing.
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It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.
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If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, Impossible, when orders came?
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He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.
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No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.
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I am like a blind pig when I work.
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