Quotes by Hemingway, Ernest

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

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack >>

All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering yo >>

Quotations about Writers and Writing

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be >>

Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash thei >>

The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment t >>

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

Hemingway, Ernest