“But never feel as good as while writing.” — Ernest Hemingway | V2Melody

“But never feel as good as while writing.”

A concise declaration of the pleasure he found in the act of writing itself · Letter to Malcolm Cowley, 14 November 1945

Ernest Hemingway

About Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

21 July 1899–2 July 1961

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on 21 July 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, a prosperous suburb west of Chicago, and died on 2 July 1961 in Ketchum, Idaho. He became one of the most recognizable writers of the twentieth century: novelist, short-story master, journalist, war correspondent, celebrity, sportsman, and, in his…

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“Easy writing makes hard reading.”

Suggesting that apparent ease in composition often produces weak prose · Conversation, recalled by Samuel Putnam, 1947

“Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part.”

A deliberately comic reversal of conventional ideas about war and ordinary life · Letter to Marlene Dietrich, 27 June 1950

“Scott took LITERATURE so solemnly. He never understood that it was just writing as well as you can and finishing what you start.”

Reducing literary ambition to workmanship, persistence and completion · Letter to Arthur Mizener, 12 May 1950