Inspiration Engagement Pieces 2012-09-26 00:00

Writing Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

A collection of Writing Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

Writing Quote by Ernest Hemingway - Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

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

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

Write drunk, edit sober.

Be confident about grammar

Check every email, essay, or story for grammar mistakes. Fix them before you press send.