I’ve tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I’m afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred. Ernest Hemingway Read Quote
On the ‘Star,’ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time. Ernest Hemingway Read Quote
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 Read Quote
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way. Ernest Hemingway Read Quote
You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across – not to just depict life – or criticize it – but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Ernest Hemingway Read Quote
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. Ernest Hemingway Read Quote
Pound’s crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. Ernest Hemingway Read Quote
I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You’re grateful for these different chances. Ernest Hemingway Read Quote
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it. Ernest Hemingway Read Quote
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive. Ernest Hemingway Read Quote
