Ernest Hemingway Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Shining, Hammers

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

• There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Bad Ass, Typewriters

  "Exclusive: Never-Before-Seen Photos from Hemingway's Childhood" by James Joiner, www.esquire.com. October 24, 2013.

• In order to write about life first you must live it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Writing, Order

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

• We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Humility, Crafts

  "New York Journal-American" Newspaper, July 11, 1961.

• Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Lonely, Writing, Lonely Life

  Ernest Hemingway, A. E. Hotchner, Albert J. DeFazio (2005). “Dear Papa, Dear Hotch: The Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway and A.E. Hotchner”, p.6, University of Missouri Press

• Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Want

• It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Business, Writing, Thinking

  "With Hemingway". Book by Arnold Samuelson, 1984.

• Write drunk; edit sober.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Witty, Clever, Humorous

• My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Boxing

• To be successful in writing, use short sentences.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Successful, Use

• There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Rocks, Literature

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

• All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Time, Writing, Vision

  Ernest Hemingway (1981). “Selected Letters, 1917-1961”

• Write hard and clear about what hurts.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Hurt, Writing, Chaos

• 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?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Dog, Writing, Differences

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.712, Simon and Schuster

• All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Truth, Freedom, Writing

  Ernest Hemingway (1992). “Complete Poems”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press

• The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Writing, Finishing It

• 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.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, People, Enough

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.114, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• 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.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Loneliness, Writing, Organization

  Bryan Patrick Harnetiaux, Ernest Hemingway (1995). “The Snows of Kilimanjaro: A Full-length Play”, p.4, Dramatic Publishing

• You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Stuff, Throwing

• If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Details, Finished

• When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Powerful, Writing, Character

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

• A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Book, Writing

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

• All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Truth, Book, Reading

  Esquire, Dec. 1934

• Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Thinking, Doe

  Quoted in A. E. Hotchner, Papa Hemingway (1966)

• Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Worry, Vices

  Source: www.mhpbooks.com

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