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I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.


Ernest Gaines

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ERNEST HEMINGWAY The shortest answer is doing the thing.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness excep...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder whil...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY We are gods with anuses.
ERNEST BECKER By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.
ERNEST RENAN You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, cou...
ERNEST BEVIN I've been to a number of places and seen for myself the caliber of people who are in the Navy to...
ERNEST BORGNINE Man makes holy what he beleives, as he makes beautiful what he loves.
ERNEST RENAN When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the lice...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are f...
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.
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