The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.


A Letter from Cuba (1934)

Ernest Hemingway Quotes

The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write....

The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write....

The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write....

The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write....