Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together
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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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Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.
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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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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
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Time is the least thing we have.
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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
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Easy writing makes hard reading.
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Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.
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Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.
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Never confuse motions with action.
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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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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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When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.
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I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.
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You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.
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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.
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Live it up so you can write it down.
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Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.
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Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .
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where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.
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My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.
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But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.
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I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.