Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.
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The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.
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If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?
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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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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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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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I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.
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A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.
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I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.
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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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Courage is grace under pressure.
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Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.
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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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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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To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.
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Having books published is very destructive to writing.
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Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things
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The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don't worry.
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You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
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I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.
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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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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.