Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

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• Ernest Hemingway:

  Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

• Ernest Hemingway:

  Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

• Ernest Hemingway:

  Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of b

• Ernest Hemingway:

  Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over w

• Ernest Hemingway:

  A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a

• Ernest Hemingway:

  Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder whi

• Ernest Hemingway:

  From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and

• Ernest Hemingway:

  Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortuna

• Ernest Hemingway:

  For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is b

• Ernest Hemingway:

  Time is the least thing we have of.