Ernest Hemingway Quotes
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away.
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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
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I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.
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You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.
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My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.
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As much as I enjoy traveling and playing on stage as an artist, I really find my true sense of purpose in a room writing a song.
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I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
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The fact is, funnily enough, that the people who seem to be most committed to causes also seem to be least invested in anyone actually talking to each other.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
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Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful of characters, and the book grows from there.
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I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.
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Give me an authentic woman, and I'm happy.
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Be a good person but do not waste time to prove it.
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Dazzling combinations are for the many, shifting wood is for the few
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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
