Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.
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Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?
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You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
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You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.
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No horse named Morbid ever won a race.
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Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
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So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.
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Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago
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A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him.
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By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.
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If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
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I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.
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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.
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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
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The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.
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I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.
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I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.
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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
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Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.
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I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.
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This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it
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Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.
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When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?
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We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance