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The most
essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof,
shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great
writers have had it.
-- Ernest Hemingway
1898-1961, American Writer
Writing, at
its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers
palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they
improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds
his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. 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
1898-1961, American Writer
We are all
apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
-- Ernest Hemingway
1898-1961, American Writer
They can't
yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to
go the full nine, even if it kills him.
-- Ernest Hemingway
1898-1961, American Writer
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The writer
must write what he has to say, not speak it.
-- Ernest Hemingway
1898-1961, American Writer
Prose is
architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is
over.
-- Ernest Hemingway
1898-1961, American Writer
I have tried
simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck
and write better than I can.
-- Ernest Hemingway
1898-1961, American Writer
A serious
writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A
serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a
popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
-- Ernest Hemingway
1898-1961, American Writer
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