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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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If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
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My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.
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You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.
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Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.
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Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.
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In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.
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Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.
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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.
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I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
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But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.
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Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.
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All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
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The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.
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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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