Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love.
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It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.
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The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.
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I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.
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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
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Anyone can be a fisherman in May.
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I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced.
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I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.
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To be successful in writing, use short sentences.
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
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In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.
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I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.
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Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
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I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.
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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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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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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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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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You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.
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Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.
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To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.
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I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together
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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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Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.