Ernest Hemingway Quotes About Worry

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  • Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your nerves.

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  • Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.

    Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.34, Simon and Schuster
  • Worry destroys the ability to write.

    Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.12, Melville House
  • The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day ... you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don't think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry about it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start.

  • The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don't worry.

    Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.24, Melville House
  • Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves.

    Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.12, Melville House
  • 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. After being severely wounded two weeks before my nineteenth birthday I had a bad time until I figured out that nothing could happen to me that had not happened to all men before me. Whatever I had to do men had always done. If they had done it then I could do it too and the best thing was not to worry about it.

    Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.3863, Simon and Schuster
  • Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

  • Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.

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  • Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.

    "Hemingway and Dietrich letters". www.telegraph.co.uk. April 3, 2007.
  • But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

    Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.428, Simon and Schuster
  • I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

    Ernest Hemingway (1992). “Complete Poems”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press
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