I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it. Ernest Hemingway
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. Ernest Hemingway
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way. Ernest Hemingway
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. Ernest Hemingway
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. Ernest Hemingway
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. Ernest Hemingway
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. Ernest Hemingway
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. Ernest Hemingway
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. Ernest Hemingway
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. Ernest Hemingway