Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
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The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
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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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Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.
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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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I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.
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Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
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Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.
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Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.
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Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
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Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love.
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A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
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How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
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How little we know of what there is to know.
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The only kind of writing is rewriting.
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You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.
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it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.
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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.
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Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.
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Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
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Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.
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Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.