Savoir quand quelque chose cloche dans un texte

"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it."

- Ernest Hemingway

Je me méfie des conseils littéraires, mais pas de celui-ci

Il sonne juste, et même excitant. C'est excitant de savoir qu'on peut se décoincer quand on est en panne d'inspiration.

“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, A Moveable Feast (Paris est une fête)

Fatigue

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”

― Ernest Hemingway

Sti que c'est beau

“Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt use it — don’t cheat with it. Be as faithful to it as a scientist — but don’t think anything is of any importance because it happens to you or anyone belonging to you… You see, Bo, you’re not a tragic character. Neither am I. All we are is writers and what we should do is write.”

— Ernest Hemingway