Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.
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As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen.
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The whiskey warmed his tongue and the back of his throat, but it did not change his ideas any, and suddenly, looking at himself in the mirror behind the bar, he knew that drinking was never going to do any good to him now. Whatever he had now he had, and it was from now on, and if he drank himself unconscious when he woke up it would be there.
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This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.
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I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone.
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There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers.
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Never confuse motions with action.
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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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Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.
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Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.
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Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.
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I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.
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Worry destroys the ability to write.
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You've such a lovely temperature.
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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
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The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.
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You're beautiful, like a May fly.
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To be successful in writing, use short sentences.
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You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.
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The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
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I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together
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Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.
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Anyone can be a fisherman in May.
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?