Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Your blood coagulates beautifully.
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If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.
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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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What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
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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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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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Having books published is very destructive to writing.
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Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love.
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There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day.
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For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.
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I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.
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You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.
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It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
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I felt very lonely when they were all there.
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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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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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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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To be successful in writing, use short sentences.
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The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day ... you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don't think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry about it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start.
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[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)
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If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.
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A big lie is more plausible than truth.
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I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.