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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Ernest Hemingway

People

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Ernest Hemingway

Nothing

Writing

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Robert A. Heinlein

Writing

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.

I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.

Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Reading

Writing