Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
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Easy writing makes hard reading.
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Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love.
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Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.
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I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together
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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
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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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You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.
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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 did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.
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What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
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And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?
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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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Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.
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You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.
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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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You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.
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I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
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Religion is the opium of the poor.
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What did I know best that I had not written about and Lost? What did I know about truly and care for the most?
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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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Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
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Anyone can be a fisherman in May.