Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway On Writing Quotes

The more I'm let alone and not worried the better I can function.

I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.

I still need some more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.

Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. Fr letter to Maxwell Perkins 1945