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Ernest Hemingway

American novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (1954). Wrote The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and The Old Man and the Sea; lived 1899–1961.

5 quotes

Write hard and clear about what hurts.
Ernest Hemingwayart
I rewrote the ending of A Farewell to Arms, the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.
Ernest Hemingwayart
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.
Ernest Hemingwayart
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
Ernest Hemingwayart
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.
Ernest Hemingwayart

Write hard and clear about what hurts.

I rewrote the ending of A Farewell to Arms, the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.