All Ernest Hemingway Quotes
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
Ernest Hemingway
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It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Ernest Hemingway
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When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.
Ernest Hemingway
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Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Ernest Hemingway
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Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
Ernest Hemingway
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You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
Ernest Hemingway
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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway
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Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Ernest Hemingway
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Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
Ernest Hemingway
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