"A writer's problem does not change. He..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway
A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.
More by Ernest Hemingway
“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”
“You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.”
“Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.”
More on Writing
“The United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer to enter: the slot between the fantastic and the drab seems too narrow.”
“I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.”
“In 'Huckleberry Finn,' I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was. He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had.”
More on Truth
“Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions.”
“The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.”
“Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.”