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" When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. "
Ernest Hemingway
Living
Character
People
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" There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter. "
Ernest Hemingway
Man
Care
Hunting
" Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. "
Ernest Hemingway
Important
Honor
Difficult
" For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed. "
Ernest Hemingway
Great
Beginning
New Beginning
" What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. "
Ernest Hemingway
Feel Good
You
Bad
" A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. "
Ernest Hemingway
Hawk
Always
May
" When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea. "
Ernest Hemingway
Alcohol
Flame
Turn
" 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. "
Ernest Hemingway
Enough
Rest
You
" They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. "
Ernest Hemingway
Sweet
War
You
" Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him. "
Ernest Hemingway
Grass
Personal
Meat
" I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy. "
Ernest Hemingway
Ring
Get
Going
" All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. "
Ernest Hemingway
Them
Time
Words
" Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. "
Ernest Hemingway
Stories
Keep
Enough
" I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. "
Ernest Hemingway
Great
People
Listening
" When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. "
Ernest Hemingway
Most
Listen
Never
" His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. "
Ernest Hemingway
Butterfly
Know
Talent
" Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. "
Ernest Hemingway
War
Think
Never
" Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear, and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses, he will endure or be forgotten. "
Ernest Hemingway
Endure
Man
Will
" You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. "
Ernest Hemingway
Love
Writing
Time
" Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. "
Ernest Hemingway
Ability
Cowardice
Always
" I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around. "
Ernest Hemingway
Zoo
People
Animals
" Wars are caused by undefended wealth. "
Ernest Hemingway
Caused
War
Wars
" Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure? "
Ernest Hemingway
Why
Failure
Man
" The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. "
Ernest Hemingway
Place
World
Hate
" That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way. "
Ernest Hemingway
Will
Best
Happen
" Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. "
Ernest Hemingway
Architecture
Clock
Style
" I rewrote the ending to 'Farewell to Arms,' the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied. "
Ernest Hemingway
Ending
Satisfied
Page
" Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. "
Ernest Hemingway
Girl
Looking
Fishing
" If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water. "
Ernest Hemingway
Water
Things
Dignity
" I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. "
Ernest Hemingway
Know
Long
Me
" A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. "
Ernest Hemingway
Man
Book
Write