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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”
― Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“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

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.”
― Christopher Morley, Parnassus on Wheels

“Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.”
― William McIlvanney

“One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
― Henry Miller

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller

“I thought of that while riding my bicycle.”
― Albert Einstein