"Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times."
–– Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), American writer and journalist
Source: Nitch, Instagram, December 9, 2024
"And this is what we tend to forget: In the careers of certain artists, those who make big, varied bodies of work in which different strands of their experience are subsumed, the business of beginning, and beginning again, never ceases. Each new beginning brings with it all the uncertainty and blankness of the first. Experience might protect such an artist from forcing what's clearly not working, but that core anxiety of not knowing if one will create again always remains. "Do not worry," Hemingway would console himself, "you have always written before and you will write now."
–– Aatish Taseer (b. 1980), British-born American writer and journalist
Source: Aatish Taseer. 'The First Stroke.' New York Times T Style Magazine, Sunday April 21, 2024, p. 53.
via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook L 2024, p. 15.
"The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed."
–– Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), American writer and journalist
via: Sketchbook A, 2017, p. 47.
"I learned never to empty the well, but always to stop when there was still something in the deep part of the well and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it."
–– Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), American writer and journalist
