Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Anyone can be a fisherman in May.
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Your blood coagulates beautifully.
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To be successful in writing, use short sentences.
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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 better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.
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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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All thinking men are atheists.
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You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.
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If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.
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My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.
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I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.
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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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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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How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
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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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It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
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Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .
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Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.
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Always quit for the day when you know what you want to do next.
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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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What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?
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You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.