When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Ernest Hemingway

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Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing.

Ernest Hemingway

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He wanted to write about country so it would be there like Cezanne had done it in a painting. You have to do it from inside yourself... You could do it if you wanted to fight for it. If you'd lived right with your eyes.

Ernest Hemingway


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Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Ernest Hemingway


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You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

Ernest Hemingway


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It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.

Ernest Hemingway

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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Ernest Hemingway

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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

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Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.

Ernest Hemingway


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You've such a lovely temperature.

Ernest Hemingway


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