"The best writing is certainly when you..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“Look at thingsand listenand feel.”

“I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.”

“The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.”

“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible; Shakespeare's plays, for instance, seem to hang there complete by themselves. But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in midair by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to the grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in.”

“The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around.”

“I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.”

“LOVE will lay a carpet of treasures under your feet.”

“I tell college students, when you get to be my age you will be successful if the people who you hope to have love you, do love you.”

“Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.”