I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.
Ernest HemingwayA writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.
Ernest HemingwayThe better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.
Ernest HemingwayThe thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.
Ernest HemingwayA cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
Ernest HemingwayThere were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.
Ernest Hemingway