The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.
Ernest HemingwayIt is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.
Ernest HemingwayYou make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.
Ernest Hemingway