"I wake up in the morning and..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway
I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.
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“He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone”
“I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.”
“You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.”
More on Creativity
“The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.”
“I don't want to please everybody. I'd get a little worried if I did something and everybody was pleased with it.”
“What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,’.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I’m writing, I write. And then it’s as if the muse is convinced that I’m serious and says, ‘Okay. Okay. I’ll come.”
More on Writing
“Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.”
“When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'”
“I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage than if the related ones were brought together into separate essays.”