Logo
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

Youre an expatriate. Youve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around caf?s. – Ernest Hemingway

Category:
Exile
Author
Ernest Hemingway
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Writing
category

I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write. – Anton Chekhov

Category:
Writing

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. – Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades, 1947

Category:
Writing

Writing is a struggle against silence. – Carlos Fuentes

Category:
Writing

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. – Harold Ross

Category:
Writing

Random Quotes

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. – Clarence Thomas

Category:
best

Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate takeover and the IMF loans that gobble up people and their resources. – Cynthia McKinney

Category:
Courage

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet. – Huston Smith

Category:
Poetry

What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike? – Ian Mcewan

Category:
Attitude