All ERNEST HEMINGWAY Quotes about “Literature”

“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.”
“That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.”
“I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.”
“I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.”
“All our words from loose using have lost their edge.”
“How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.”
“The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.”
“Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.”
“Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.”
“There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.”

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