Ernest Hemingway Quote

Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.


Letter to Bernard Berenson (2 October 1952); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker


Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you...

Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you...

Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you...

Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you...