Quotes by Hemingway, Ernest

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers pall >>

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is ove >>

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. >>

Quotations about Dictionaries

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the >>

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not en >>

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busie >>

Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).

Hemingway, Ernest