"A serious writer is not to be..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“Not the why but the what.”

“Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.”

“My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.”

“We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance”

“I couldn't imagine a more unreliable, more unprofitable way to make a living than writing. My advice? Show up, do the best you can. Keep your day job. If you get a lucky break, don't f*** up. It was helpful to be older because I had made all the really stupid mistakes already.”

“There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.”

“I even asked [Saniyya Sidney] why she wanted to be an actor and she said, "I'm serious about this. These other little kids they want to play, and I don't have time for that."”

“Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.”

“We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint.”