Ernest Hemingway

I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#f-scott-fitzgerald #letter #on-writing #storytelling #storytelling

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#legacy #nature #nature

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#life #inspirational

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#better #good #good luck #i #i can

What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write? ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#faith

There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#love

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#love

I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#description

Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#brett #count #fall-in-love #jake #love

A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#destroyed #man