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Ernest Hemingway on Writing

1899–1961 United States

← All quotes by Ernest Hemingway

5 quotes

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

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

Death in the Afternoon (1932)

Scott took LITERATURE so solemnly. He never understood that it was just writing as well as you can and finishing what you start.

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

Paris Review interview (1958)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ernest Hemingway (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.