“It was wonderful to walk down the long flights of stairs knowing that I’d had good luck working. I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.”
Ernest Hemingway (verified)
“I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“This was omitted on my new theory that you could omit anything if you knew that you omitted and the omitted part would strengthen the story and make people feel something more than they understood.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“I wish I could write well enough to write that story, he thought. What we did. Not what the others did to us.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)