There is no such thing as great writing – there is only great re-writing!
ERNEST HEMINGWAYWorry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.
More Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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We’re stronger in the places that we’ve been broken.
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All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
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If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.
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Every day above earth is a good day.
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Write hard and clear about what hurts.
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Hunger is good discipline.
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Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.
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My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.
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Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?
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Any man’s life, told truly, is a novel.
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The smallest coffins are the heaviest.
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Work could cure almost anything.
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As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
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Where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.
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Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.
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To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don’t let it.
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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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Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.
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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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Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
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If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
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All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.
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Being against evil doesn’t make you good.
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Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
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The first draft of anything is shit.
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The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.
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