Ernest Hemingway Quote

You see it's awfully hard to talk or write about your own stuff because if it is any good you yourself know about how good it is — but if you say so yourself you feel like a shit.


Letter to Malcolm Cowley (17 October 1945); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker


You see it's awfully hard to talk or write about your own stuff because if it is any good you yourself know about how good it is — but if you say...

You see it's awfully hard to talk or write about your own stuff because if it is any good you yourself know about how good it is — but if you say...

You see it's awfully hard to talk or write about your own stuff because if it is any good you yourself know about how good it is — but if you say...

You see it's awfully hard to talk or write about your own stuff because if it is any good you yourself know about how good it is — but if you say...