They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
From Ernest Hemingway
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
Never mistake motion for action.
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.
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