American - Novelist | July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961
I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.
Ernest Hemingway
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Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
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I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
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After you finish a book, you know, you're dead. But no one knows you're dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.
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The shortest answer is doing the thing.
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I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
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Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
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'For Whom the Bell Tolls' was a problem which I carried on each day. I knew what was going to happen in principle. But I invented what happened each day I wrote.
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The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
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