All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
ERNEST HEMINGWAYI’m with you. No matter what else you have in your head I’m with you and I love you.
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Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.
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Develop a built-in bullshit detector.
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You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.
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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
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Never confuse movement with action.
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Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.
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Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.
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When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.
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Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
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My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren’t with me I haven’t a thing in the world.
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Everything is your fault if you’re any damn good.
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I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you’re yet to be.
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The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
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The best writing is certainly when you are in love.
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There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don’t ever tell which is which.
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The shortest answer is doing the thing.
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To be successful in writing, use short sentences.
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There are worse places to be than on your own.
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Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
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There is no friend as loyal as a book.
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When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
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Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.
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As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
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Any man’s life, told truly, is a novel.
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