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
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. – Ernest Hemingway
Ive tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that Im afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred. – Ernest Hemingway
It wasnt by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. – Ernest Hemingway