We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. …

Ernest Hemingway
589 citations
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. ✨ New York Journal-American Newspaper, July 11, 1961.
Humor
12

More Author Quotes

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.
I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actuall … ▶
I'm not advocating the strenuous life for everyone or trying to say it's the choice form of life. Anyone who's had the luck or misfortune to be an athlete has to keep his body in shape. The body and … ▶
He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the be … ▶
It is very bad for (an artist) to talk about how he (creates). It is not the (artist's) province to explain or to run guided tours through the more difficult country of his work. It's none of their b … ▶

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. ✨ New York Journal-American Newspaper, July 11, 1961.

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes