Ernest Hemingway Quote

If I started to write elaborately, or like someone introducing or presenting something, I found that I could cut that scrollwork or ornament out and throw it away and start with the first true simple declarative sentence I had written.


A Moveable Feast (1964)


If I started to write elaborately, or like someone introducing or presenting something, I found that I could cut that scrollwork or ornament out and...

If I started to write elaborately, or like someone introducing or presenting something, I found that I could cut that scrollwork or ornament out and...

If I started to write elaborately, or like someone introducing or presenting something, I found that I could cut that scrollwork or ornament out and...

If I started to write elaborately, or like someone introducing or presenting something, I found that I could cut that scrollwork or ornament out and...