Sunday, 5 June 2011

If you can get this...


All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that it all happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
- Ernest Hemingway
Posted by at

6 comments:

  1. Kerkedijk6 June 2011 at 20:17

    I love that quote Eamon, it is so right.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Eamon O C6 June 2011 at 20:22

    Indeed, Maire, what more can we ask as writers but to hear that our readers connect with our work. It's the kind of thing I aspire to, to achieve such depth of truth in my descriptions and the thoughts of my characters. A case of constant evolution, for us all.

    ReplyDelete
  3. BARBARA8 June 2011 at 07:10

    If you can give that to the reader...oh yes.....that is what we strive so hard to do...

    ReplyDelete
  4. Eamon O C8 June 2011 at 16:46

    You're right, B, it's all about the striving - pushing forward to learn and improve. Tough, but oh so joyful and fulfilling.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Buttercup8 June 2011 at 17:00

    What a wonderful quote!

    ReplyDelete
  6. Susan Nicola Sheehan9 June 2011 at 12:58

    So true! :) I like that quote.

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)