Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Time is the least thing we have.
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When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.
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The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
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In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.
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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
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Never confuse motions with action.
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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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It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.
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I drink to make other people more interesting.
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It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.
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Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.
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When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
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Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .
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One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]
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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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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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I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.
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Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey
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Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.
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The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
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No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things
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To be successful in writing, use short sentences.