I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
– Ernest Hemingway
The Well
Tag: Writing
Nothing to it…
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
– Ernest Hemingway
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
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
Looking into the Abyss
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.
– Michael Connelly
You don’t need demons
“I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club
The swirl and swing of words
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
—James Michener
The Writer’s Job
The writer’s job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.
—Vladimir Nabokov
Like driving a car…
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
—E. L. Doctorow
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