Ernest Hemingway Quotes

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

After putting the kids to bed, I would think about what I wanted to write.

I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love.

Sitting in my favorite coffeehouse with a new notebook and a hot cup of java is my idea of Heaven.

For me, writing is a parenthesis where I can make sense of life.

I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.

I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.

I can't write unless I'm overlooking water.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

I tend to write more when I travel.

I have dreamt of being an author since the age of 14, and writing about my experiences has always been a part of digesting an experience and sharing it with others.

I always wanted to be a children's author, and I have a really big library of children's books. All the ones from when I was little, they are just so beautiful. I read kids' books, and they calm me down.

In summer, I like to sit and compose on the porch, where I can see people come and go.

The only difficult thing is learning to recognise the interesting bits from those millions of moments life provides you with every day and writing down those snippets.

When I make a film, I don't watch a lot of other films. I read a lot; I try to read poems, things that can liberate my human condition, that make me go away... I spend a lot of the time doing nothing, just concentrating on the subject. Sometimes I'll sit in my chair for two or three hours without doing anything.

I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.

I was always writing - whether it's ideas, poems, whatever - because we spent so much time in the car traveling from city to city.

I sleep with a notebook next to me, and most nights I sleep with my guitar next to me.

I do actually enjoy the process of putting my thoughts down on paper and having people actually read them.

Sometimes I need to go for a walk for inspiration.

One of the most meditative times of my day is when I'm cooking.

I feel like I have time to think when I'm in L.A. There's something about the spaciousness of it.

I kept notebooks as a kid, and they were important to me.

I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.