Ernest Hemingway on Language

This page displays 1 quotation attributed to Ernest Hemingway and filed under "language" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.

Attributed to Ernest Hemingway, entry #19306: "Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste…"