![I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of [$h¡t].](/quote/write-page-masterpiece-ninety-pages-a.jpg "I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of [$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
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
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. – Ernest Hemingway
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. – Ernest Hemingway
The majority of writers ought to translate themselves; there are but few thoughts that are born translated, that is, clothed with the power best fitted alike to express and transmit them. What we have in the first instance written for ourselves, should be written a second time for others. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847), Literature. First Section: Literature in Gene
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. – John Ruskin