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It is hard enough to write books and stories without having to explain them as well.

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof shit detector.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life — and one is as good as the other.

Ernest Hemingway (via thatlitsite)

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“ What happens when you cook every recipe in a Hemingway story?
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What happens when you cook every recipe in a Hemingway story?

As a man things are as they should or shouldn’t be. As a man you know who is right and who is wrong. You have to make decisions and enforce them. As a writer you should not judge. You should understand.

Ernest Hemingway, How to Be a Writer: Hemingway’s Advice to Aspiring Authors | Brain Pickings (via housingworksbookstore)

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Photo Portraits of Bearded Men Who Look Like Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway’s letter to his mother (Sept. 1914). The letter reads:
“Dear Mother,
I got your card thanks very much. Our Train was 2.25 minutes late!! so no school.
The Program is all changed around lunch at a different time and alot of other changes. There was a report circulated around that I was drowned and some of my pals thot I was a ghost. May I PLEASE have SOME LONG PANTS. Every other Boy in our class has them, Lewie Clarahan Ignatz smith and every other little shrimp. My pants are so small every time I wiggle I think they are going to split. And I have about 8 or Ten inches of wrist below me cuffs thusly.
Please say I can have them long ones.
Your drowned son
Ernest Hemingway
P.S. My shirt buttons all fly off when I take a full Breath”
Letter credit: Ernest Hemingway Foundation. Hemingway’s scrapbooks made available by jfklibrary.org

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man, true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Ernest Hemingway (via lizattemptstoblog)

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“ “Gertrude Stein and me are just like brothers.”
A letter from yet-unpublished Ernest Hemingway to his mentor, Sherwood Anderson, March 9, 1922, from a new exhibition at Chicago’s Newberry Research Library.
Also see young Hemingway’s...

explore-blog:

“Gertrude Stein and me are just like brothers.”
A letter from yet-unpublished Ernest Hemingway to his mentor, Sherwood Anderson, March 9, 1922, from a new exhibition at Chicago’s Newberry Research Library.
Also see young Hemingway’s collected letters.

scribnerbooks:
“ 7 tips from Hemingway on how to write fiction.
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scribnerbooks:

7 tips from Hemingway on how to write fiction.

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