When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature.

- Ernest Hemingway

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector.

– Ernest Hemingway

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

- Ernest Hemingway

As a writer you should not judge. You should understand.

-Ernest Hemingway

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

- Ernest Hemingway

It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.  

- Ernest Hemingway

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

- Ernest Hemingway