Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.
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In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.
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You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.
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At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.
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There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.
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He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.
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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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The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.
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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
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In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.
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Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.
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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 business that you had to learn. Let them think you were born that way.
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Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
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One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.
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People fall in love, but have to climb out.
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If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?
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Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate.
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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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Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things
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Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?
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If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.
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Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves.
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Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.
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I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.