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

You write a book like that youre fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, its like pissing in your fathers beer. – Ernest Hemingway

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All my life Ive looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. – Ernest Hemingway

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I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end with a skyscraper made of wood. – Norman Mailer

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The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. – Ray Bradbury

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Caress your phrase tenderly: it will end by smiling at you. – Anatole France

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Lists are the butterfly nets that catch my fleeting thoughts… – Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com [And a resounding INFJ-hallel

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The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die. – John Steinbeck

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