119 Quotes About Hemingway

Sky aflameWith vermillion passionAdriftEmpty streetsSilently serenadeSilkenWithin my pocketHemingway humsStatic.

I'd known since girlhood that I wanted to be a book editor. By high school, I'd pore over the acknowledgments section of novels I loved, daydreaming that someday a brilliant talent might see me as the person who 'made her book possible' or 'enhanced every page with editorial wisdom and insight.' Could I be the Maxwell Perkins to some future Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wolfe?

I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.

I thought back to Meg’s advice about Hemingway sentences—simple declarative statements that showed the truth and distilled the meaning. My first attempt at that had been cynical and messed up. I gave it a go again.Find one lost sheep.The angels rejoice.

Children, Hadley thinks to herself, children are more civilised than this gang on the sauce.

You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know

Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.

For me, all writing -- storytelling and style -- gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order.

If you had stars inside your brain cells, you'd probably understand what I am talking about.