All ERNEST HEMINGWAY 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.”
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.”
“Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.”
“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
“My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.”
“To be successful in writing, use short sentences.”
“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.”
“You know youâ€™re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.”
“If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.”
“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”

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