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  • #1
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #2
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #3
    Ernest Hemingway
    “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #4
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
    Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference
    tags: war

  • #5
    Ernest Hemingway
    “My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #6
    Ernest Hemingway
    “As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #7
    Ernest Hemingway
    “A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #8
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
    Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

  • #9
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #10
    Ernest Hemingway
    “In order to write about life first you must live it.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #11
    Ernest Hemingway
    “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

  • #12
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Write hard and clear about what hurts.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #13
    Ernest Hemingway
    “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

  • #14
    Ernest Hemingway
    “When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”
    Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

  • #15
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Any man's life, told truly, is a novel...”
    Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

  • #16
    Ernest Hemingway
    “If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #17
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Good writing is good conversation, only more so.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #18
    Ernest Hemingway
    “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

  • #19
    Albert Einstein
    “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

  • #20
    Neil Gaiman
    “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

  • #21
    Audrey Hepburn
    “If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.”
    Audrey Hepburn

  • #22
    G.K. Chesterton
    “There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #23
    Mae West
    “I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”
    Mae West

  • #24
    Albert Einstein
    “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

  • #25
    “Classic fairy tales do not deny the existence of heartache and sorrow, but they do deny universal defeat.”
    Greenhaven Press

  • #26
    David Sedaris
    “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

  • #27
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #28
    Lorrie Moore
    “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

  • #29
    Andre Dubus
    “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

  • #30
    Syd Field
    “Confusion is the first step toward clarity”
    Syd Field, Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting Paperback – November 29, 2005



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