After you finish a book, you know, you're dead. But no one knows you're dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.
Ernest Hemingway
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DEBORAH MAILMAN 'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it. ELIZABETH OLSEN Absence is absence, you know? The loss of someone can be just as devastating if they're alive as... ADAM SILVERA UNIX always presumes you know what you're doing. You're the human being, after all, and it i... ELLEN ULLMAN Because when they strike it can be that quick that if they're within range, you're dead, you... STEVE IRWIN Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead. JIM VALVANO Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon. BUD ABBOTT A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead. ELLEN BARKIN I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biograph... DAVID MARANISS Any time you play in a USGA Championship, if you don't drive the ball on the fairway, you're... TOM WATSON You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery. CARMEN AGRA DEEDY The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time try... CARL HIAASEN When it comes right down to it, whatever business you're in, you're in the people business. ... KAREN SALMANSOHN The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you ... ROBERT M. PIRSIG Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you'r... FINN WITTROCK A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they... SYLVIA BROWNE I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing noth... RICHARD FLANAGAN When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're no... DAVID GUTERSON If you don't flirt, you're probably dead inside. KATHARINE TOWNE It's a bit cliche, but you can't go wrong by writing what you know. Even if you're a hor... ISSA RAE When you're around the whole Dead scene, they're there as a tribal thing; they're there ... KEN KESEY Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B... JOHN LAUTNER I think you sense the metaphorical resonance of what you're writing without analysing it too car... JOSEPH O'NEILL The comic book world is so dangerous, you know what I mean? You say one thing and people - they'... CHRIS EVANS When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why... FRED DURST There's exceptional work being done on television. Some of our great writers are writing for tel... BILLY CRUDUP When dealing with a subject who is dead, you have this feeling of being God. You know who they'r... CLAIRE TOMALIN After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place yo... ELLIOT PERLMAN I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. 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ERNEST HEMINGWAY If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight. ERNEST HEMINGWAY I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first t... ERNEST HEMINGWAY We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage, and ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are f... ERNEST HEMINGWAY That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. ERNEST HEMINGWAY Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enoug... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunat... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both brin... ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and lik... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. ERNEST HEMINGWAY There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to w... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. ERNEST HEMINGWAY An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. ERNEST HEMINGWAY Never mistake motion for action. ERNEST HEMINGWAY If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The digni... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go... ERNEST HEMINGWAY But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ERNEST HEMINGWAY From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and a... ERNEST HEMINGWAY All things truly wicked start from innocence. ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it. ERNEST HEMINGWAY I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? ERNEST HEMINGWAY For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is be... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. ERNEST HEMINGWAY Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. ERNEST HEMINGWAY