Quotes about Expression
I even read aloud the part of the novel that I had rewritten, which is about as low as a writer can get and much more dangerous for him as a writer than glacier skiing unroped before the full winter snowfall has set over the crevices.
— Ernest Hemingway
Write the truest sentence you know. Then write another. -- Hemingway's advice to other young writers in A Moveable Feast.
— Ernest Hemingway
Harry looked at him and you could see the murder come in his face. ... Harry didn't say anything, but you could see the killing go out of his face and his eyes came open natural again.
— Ernest Hemingway
Some say that in writing you can never possess anything until you have given it away or, if you are in a hurry, you may have to throw it away.
— Ernest Hemingway
The biggest boy was long and dark with Thomas Hudson's neck and shoulders and the long swimmer's legs and big feet. He had a rather Indian face and was a happy boy although in repose his face looked almost tragic.
— Ernest Hemingway
The hardest thing in the world to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings.
— Ernest Hemingway
We all ought to make sacrifices for literature.
— Ernest Hemingway
Inaccrochable - A picture 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. -said by Gertrude Stein
— Ernest Hemingway
In principle, I would have brought you a bottle of brand.' 'In principle,' Para said and smiled, for the first time, showing yellowed teeth. 'Such a beautiful expression. Would you like some Grappa?
— Ernest Hemingway
I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed.
— Etty Hillesum
Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.
— Etty Hillesum
To avoid regret, you do and say and express every good thing you can possibly do and say and express to those you love. 'Cause you're going to find there isn't always time to whisper good-bye.
— Andy Andrews