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Quotes from Paris Review interview — Ernest Hemingway

1899–1961 United States

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

Paris Review interview (1958)

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.

Paris Review interview (1958)

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.

Paris Review interview (1958)

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

Paris Review interview (1958)

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