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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.
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 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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Man is not made for defeat.
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The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave.
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I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.
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I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.
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There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
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If you're looking for messages, try Western Union.
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Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.
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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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