The quotation is sometimes attached to famous figures in antiquity. For example, in a version of the quote was assigned to the Roman orator Cicero: Cicero excuses himself for having written a long letter, by saying he had not time to make it shorter. The German theologian Martin Luther died in A biographical work published in London in attributed the following words to him: If I had my time to go over again, I would make my sermons much shorter, for I am conscious they have been too wordy.
In Henry David Thoreau wrote a letter to a friend that offered commentary about story length: In Mark Twain wrote a letter to a friend that included a remark about the length of his note. Thus much precious time is lost. According to an anecdote published in Woodrow Wilson was asked about the amount of time he spent preparing speeches, and his response was illuminating: I am ready now. QI has examined a family of similar sayings about speeches in an entry located here.
Mark Twain died in Writing a postcard well requires effort. In conclusion, Blaise Pascal wrote a version of this saying in French and it quickly moved into the English language. The notion was very popular and variants of the expression have been employed by other notable figures in history. The saying has also been assigned to some prominent individuals without adequate factual support. Simple as that. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window. You read and you're pierced. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. In the meantime I would write a long story about whatever I knew best.
What did I know best that I had not written about and lost? What did I know about truly and care for the most? There was no choice at all. This was omitted on my new theory that you could omit anything if you knew that you omitted and the omitted part would strengthen the story and make people feel something more than they understood.
All I must do now was stay sound and good in my head until morning when I would start to work again. Scott Fitzgerald] had the shyness about it that all non-conceited writers have when they have done something very fine. Scott Fitzgerald] had told me at the Closerie des Lilas how he wrote what he thought were good stories, and which really were good stories for the Post , and then changed them for submission, knowing exactly how he must make the twists that made them into salable magazine stories.
I had been shocked at this and I said I thought it was whoring…. I said that I did not believe anyone could write any way except the very best he could write without destroying his talent.
Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do. But it was very difficult, and I did not know how I would ever write anything as long as a novel. It often took me a full morning of work to write a paragraph. I was getting tired of the literary life, if this was the literary life that I was leading, and already I missed not working and I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.
After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day.
Instead, they are tips to Ernest Hemingway from his friends and mentors which he captured in A Moveable Feast:. But it is inaccrochable. That means it is like a picture that a painter paints and then he cannot hang it when he has a show and nobody will buy it because they cannot hang it either. There is, of course, the problem of sustenance. Which of these Ernest Hemingway quotes is your favorite? Let us know in the comments.
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