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I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing.


Ernest Gaines

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Let justice be done, though the world perish.
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.
ERNEST RUTHERFORD There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fill...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Don't just count your years, make your years count.
ERNEST MEYERS All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. - What We Live By.
ERNEST DIMNET What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter...
ERNEST DIMNET The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by th...
ERNEST DIMNET Man makes holy what he believes.
ERNEST RENAN You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not ha...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it k...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the wri...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are ass...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelin...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Never confuse movement with action.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nad...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY