Source: Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
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Famous Ernest Hemingway Quotes
Source: Selected Letters, 1917-1961
“Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.”
“My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.”
Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
Source: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse
“All bad writers are in love with the epic.”
Source: Death in the Afternoon
“Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.”
“Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.”
“Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.”
“Worry destroys the ability to write.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
“There is no rule on how to write.”
Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway
“Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.”
Source: Conversations with Ernest Hemingway
“The best writing is certainly when you are in love”
Source: Conversations with Ernest Hemingway
“The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.”
Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
“Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.”
Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
Source: Selected Letters, 1917-1961
Source: Islands in the Stream: A Novel
Source: The Sun Also Rises
Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961