Home » Quote » Ernest Hemingway » „There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.“ „There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.“ — Ernest Hemingway Related quotes „When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off.“ — Stephen King „Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life?Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.“ — Winston S. Churchill „I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.“ — Ernest Hemingway „It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.“ — Gertrude Stein „If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.“ — Dorothy Parker