Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.
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If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.
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Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
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There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.
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When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
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Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.
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Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.
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To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.
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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and is it is cool and you come to your work and warm as you write. 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 again.
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The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.
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Tell me some true things about fighting.''Tell me you love me.''I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places.
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
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You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.
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We wait always for something that does not come.
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I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.
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I felt very lonely when they were all there.
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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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Courage is grace under pressure.
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Worry destroys the ability to write.
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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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He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.
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Having books published is very destructive to writing.
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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.