| ERNEST HEMINGWAY |
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| �A big lie is more plausible than the truth.�
�A man�s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.� �A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.� �All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, the sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.� �All my life I�ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.� �But in modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.� �Courage is grace under pressure.� �Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.� �Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.� �From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality. That is why you write and for no other reason that you know of. But what about all the reasons that no one knows?� �Never confuse movement with action.� �Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.� |