Ernest Hemingway Quotes

I always thought everybody made up stories in their heads - never thought about actually writing them down on paper until I was snowed in with the kids in the blizzard of '79 - 3 feet of snow. I live in a rural area and was stuck. No morning kindergarten - it was a nightmare.

I never think that any writer can teach someone how to write.

There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write.

During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.

I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.

I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that!

I live right in the middle of nowhere and I thoroughly enjoy it.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

I've got a different life. I live up on a farm; I don't have anything to do with social media.

I basically grew up in the backwoods.

When I was younger, I would write a ton, mostly because my mom told me I had incredible creativity and a gift of using words, only these were words that didn't get me in trouble.

I just keep to myself and live in the country and visit the cities.

I didn't understand when somebody thanked me for writing a good sketch, because it was something I wanted to do, but now I totally get it, because when someone writes something great for me, I'm so appreciative.

When I'm writing I don't feel any pressure. It's after I'm done that I start freaking out. But really, when I'm in Lebanon, I don't write much because I'm surrounded by family. I feel immersed, or enmeshed, in too many currents. I love that, but it's not conducive to writing. In San Francisco, nothing interferes with me but my cats.

Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane.

Editors, for the most part, don't care ''what'' you've done, or how astounding the physical event may have been. You need to write well. Many others are capable of doing what you have done (probably), so you must write better than they.

If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers would never get past the locked door.

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only two hours a day can write in the back of an open truck on the Interstate.

But, dear God, don't listen to me. I'm an old lady in the middle of nowhere without a real toilet.

I never write. Never! I do not even remember if I can write.

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.