Hemingwayesque Writing Quotes & Sayings

What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness. — Martha Graham

I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing God's poem," I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common project, a common prayer. But to Gore's and Norman's generation, particularly those male writers who served in the second world war, the prizefighter paradigm remains. — Erica Jong

God has somehow placed into Christian's insides a special something, that extra inner reservoir of power that is more than a match for the stuff life throws at us. — Charles R. Swindoll

I don't know, man." He reached into his inside pocket and pulled out a pack of cigarettes.
"Ew!" I recoiled. "You smoke?"
"Only when I drink," he said, reaching for a lighter, "or when I'm seriously depressed."
I snatched the pack away. "These will kill you, and you don't want that."
"Yeah?" he said sarcastically. "How should I get myself killed then?"
"You could hang out with me some more," I suggested. "I attract homicidal maniacs like mosquitoes, baby. — Kyra Davis

A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls. — Walt Whitman

Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest? — Lily Tomlin

It's not that I think the Nazis were right, or anything. It's just that, we weren't there, we don't know. — Zach Braff

The depth of a fall is always measured by the difference between the level of the original position from which a body has fallen and that in which it is now found. The — Adolf Hitler