Hunger is good discipline. Ernest Hemingway More Quotes by Ernest Hemingway More Quotes From Ernest Hemingway The best writing is certainly when you are in love Ernest Hemingway writing You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket. Ernest Hemingway throwing stuff writing No horse named Morbid ever won a race. Ernest Hemingway morbid horse race Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour. Ernest Hemingway writing trying years Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important. Ernest Hemingway writing weather book They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is. Ernest Hemingway life-lesson army wise Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... 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. Ernest Hemingway loneliness organization writing All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. Ernest Hemingway vision writing time I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes. Ernest Hemingway cheer writing book When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve. Ernest Hemingway sacrifice wish love-you The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together. Ernest Hemingway cafes together people Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't. Ernest Hemingway want writing 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 movement writing water How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly. Ernest Hemingway two-ways two way It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better. Ernest Hemingway advantage writing moving Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet. Ernest Hemingway carpe carpe-diem prophet Write hard and clear about what hurts. Ernest Hemingway chaos hurt writing For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. Ernest Hemingway new-beginnings trying book Easy writing makes hard reading. Ernest Hemingway reading easy writing What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write? Ernest Hemingway differences dog writing