Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.
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Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
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I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent.
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Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or his belly and that his gameness is really an extreme of panic in which he runs, leaps, and pulls to get away until he dies. It would seem to be enough advantage to the angler that the fish has the hook in his mouth rather than the angler.
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Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.
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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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it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.
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No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
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It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.
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For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.
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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.
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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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Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.
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That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch.
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I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is in rebellion against death, as I am in rebellion against death, he gets pleasure out of taking to himself one of the godlike attributes; that of giving it.
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Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.
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Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
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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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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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It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.
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When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
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The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.
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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
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Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?