Quotes by Hemingway, Ernest

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoi >>

Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or >>

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

Quotations about Invention and Inventor

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a cent >>

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of >>

We can invent only with memory. >>

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best --make it all up --but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

Hemingway, Ernest