Quotes by Hemingway, Ernest

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessar >>

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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully >>

Quotations about Experience

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusive >>

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the >>

Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something els >>

In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well oiled in the closet, but unused.

Hemingway, Ernest