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“The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.”
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“Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.”
Source : A. E. Hotchner (2010). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, p.11, Harper Collins
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“He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.”
Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.14, Da Capo Press
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“Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.”
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“When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.”
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“We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.”
Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.107, Penguin
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“Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.”
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“I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.”
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“There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige”
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“Whoever desires this world must seek its knowledge, and whoever desires the next must seek its knowledge. ”
