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#1

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

tags: good, writing

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#2

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

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#3

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

tags: truth, writing, writing-advice

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#4

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference

tags: war

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#5

“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: writing

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#6

“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: writers, writing-advice

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#7

“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: cats

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#8

“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

tags: strength

1558 likes

#9

“The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: writing

750 likes

#10

“In order to write about life first you must live it.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: writing-life

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#11

“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

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#12

“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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#13

“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

tags: writing

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#14

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

tags: caricature, characters, skill, true-to-life, writing

449 likes

#15

“Any man's life, told truly, is a novel...”
― Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

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#16

“If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: writing

254 likes

#17

“Good writing is good conversation, only more so.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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#18

“I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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#19

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales

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#20

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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#21

“If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.”
― Audrey Hepburn

tags: fairy-tales

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#22

“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#23

“I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”
― Mae West

tags: decadence, fairy-tales, innuendo, purity, risque, snow-white, virginity

700 likes

#24

“When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: fairy-tales

572 likes

#25

“Classic fairy tales do not deny the existence of heartache and sorrow, but they do deny universal defeat.”
― Greenhaven Press

tags: fairy-tales, fantasy

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#26

“A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.”
― David Sedaris

tags: reading, self-awareness, short-stories, writing

322 likes

#27

“A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#28

“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
― Lorrie Moore

tags: novels, short-stories, writing

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#29

“I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.”
― Andre Dubus

tags: short-stories

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#30

“Confusion is the first step toward clarity”
― Syd Field, Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting Paperback – November 29, 2005

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