There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
– Ernest Hemingway
Nothing to it…
Category: Writing
Simply the best…
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
– Ernest Hemingway
People… not characters
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
– Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway’s Rules
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
—Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway’s Golden Ratio…
I write one page of masterpiece to ninety nine pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the waste-basket.
—Ernest Hemingway
There’s always room…
There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.
– J. K. Rowling
The terrible thing…
The terrible thing about being a writer is that you don’t decide to become one, you discover that you are one.
—James Baldwin
Study the master
Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master.
—William Faulkner
The only thing…
Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
—Barbara Kingsolver
Take a chance…
You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
—Jim Carrey
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