"The better the writers the less they..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway
The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.
More by Ernest Hemingway
“I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows.”
“You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.”
“My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.”
More on Writing
“Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.”
“The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.”
“The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.”
More on Humility
“Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion... Since men are able to form a true judgement as to the works of nature, how much more does it behoove us to admit that they are able to judge our faults.”
“If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.”
“The greatest genius is the most indebted person.”