Quote #30
I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
More from Ernest Hemingway
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- Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
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- The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor…
- All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
- However you make your living is where your talent lies.
- It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathemati…