Quote by Ernest Hemingway
I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of [$h¡t].

I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of [$h¡t]. I try to put the [$h¡t] in the wastebasket. – Ernest Hemingway

Other quotes by Ernest Hemingway

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently. – Ernest Hemingway

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I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it. – Ernest Hemingway

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communication
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I dont like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you cant do it. – Ernest Hemingway

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Every word born of an inner necessity — writing must never be anything else. – Etty Hillesum, quoted in Ten Fun Things to Do Before You Die by Karol Jackowski

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The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. – Elias Canetti

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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. – Samuel Johnson

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Being an author is being in charge of your own personal insane asylum. – Terri Guillemets

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The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation. – Nick Rahall

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A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends. – Frank Crane

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