Ernest Hemingway Writers Quotations

I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.

In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.

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

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.