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.
Ernest Hemingway

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.
Ernest Hemingway

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

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
Ernest Hemingway

All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.
Jimi Hendrix

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
John Adams

Television has raised writing to a new low.
Samuel Goldwyn

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
Stephen Leacock

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.
Steve Martin

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.
Marcus Garvey

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
George Orwell

Good writing is like a windowpane.
George Orwell

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
John Steinbeck

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
Lee Iacocca

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
Woodrow Wilson

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. Washington

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.
Jack Nicholson

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.
Dave Barry

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
Bette Midler