Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.
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If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.
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Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.
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He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.
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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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Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
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There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make.
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If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.
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There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.
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Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.
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Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.
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The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.
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For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.
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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. . . .When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have e made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.
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Live it up so you can write it down.
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The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.
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It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.
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I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
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Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.
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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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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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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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Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.
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If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.