Ernest Hemingway Quotes
I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
Ernest Hemingway
Quotes to Explore
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The connection I make with being young and growing up is, like, the feeling of not being crushed by the world. Having an idea, thinking you can do it.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
Camila Cabello
Fifth Harmony
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
Iris Murdoch
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I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.
Paget Brewster
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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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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.
J. A. Jance
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'Seize the Story' takes readers all the way through the process of writing fiction, from beginning to end. Every element, from dialogue to setting, plotting to character creation, is laid out and illustrated with examples. But the tone of the book is not that of a dry writing manual - it's definitely written for teenagers.
Victoria Hanley
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People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
Gail Porter
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I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.
Zara Cox
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Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.
Hakan Nesser
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I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.
Tadao Ando
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Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.
Adam Clymer
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A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
Barbara De Angelis
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An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it.
Jack White
The White Stripes
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I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
AJ McLean
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What I think you are going to see is with DACA being gone, it gets rid of the magnet of drawing people over here, thinking they are going to come in and get amnesty.
Ted Yoho
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I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can't go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests.
Walter Kirn
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I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.'
Demetri Martin
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I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike, but women tend to think about more things at the same time, an overgeneralization, but I find it easier to make my male characters focus than I do my female characters.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
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It is good for a man to invite his ghosts into his warm interior, out of the wild night, into the firelight, out of the howling dark.
A. S. Byatt
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I'm always the person who's taking everyone else's kid and putting them on my hip, so I've kinda always been a mama.
Blake Lively
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I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
Ernest Hemingway
