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 mathematics, of physics.
Ernest HemingwayDo you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.
Ernest HemingwayYou could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood
Ernest HemingwayLet’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.
Ernest Hemingway