Quotes by Hemingway, Ernest

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone l >>

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

I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luc >>

Quotations about Brevity

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when >>

The fewer the words, the better the prayer. >>

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. >>

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

Hemingway, Ernest