Ernest Hemingway Quotes

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing. What happens is that you write when you're ready.

...I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except when I'm making love. Two things when you forget time, when nothing exists except the moment--the moment of writing, the moment of love. That perfect concentration is bliss.

You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.

I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about.

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

When I write I find a quiet place.

Although I've made notes for things and even written synopses sitting in trains or on park benches, for the complete composition of things I need absolute solitude, preferably an empty house.

I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write.

To write, you need to find what you love.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do.

It's easy to get discouraged; just keep writing because you love to do it, and you'll keep improving.

When you're writing, it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea.

If I find out I have to write today and nothing else, that’s a perfect day. I know a lot of people who are great at it and make it look easy who are tortured and miserable people. Writing for me is perfect peace.

Write what you love and love what you write.

My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

I'm afraid my closely guarded solitude causes some hurt feelings now and then. But how to explain, without wounding someone, that you want to be wholly in the world you are writing about, that it would take two days to get the visitor's voice out of the house so that you could listen to your own characters again?

Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness.

Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in the morning, in the beginning of that writing session and the ending of that session, I'm aware that I'm writing. I'm aware of my surroundings. It's like shallow sleep on both ends, when you go to bed and when you wake up. But in the middle, the world is gone and I'm able to see better.

The best writing is certainly when you are in love

The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to us by God to test things once they’re done, not to worry about things ahead of time.