“It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
—Hemingway on the loss of a suitcase containing work from his first two years as a writer
February 2013
2 posts
January 2013
3 posts
December 2012
1 post
November 2012
9 posts
“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”
—Ernest Hemingway
“He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any man could have.”
—Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
March 2012
47 posts
“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”
—Ernest Hemingway
“You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn’t kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.”
—Ernest Hemingway
