Quotes by Hemingway, Ernest

Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will b >>

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best --make it a >>

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter an >>

Quotations about Fiction

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but >>

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not >>

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the no >>

You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.

Hemingway, Ernest