Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.
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Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.
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I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.
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Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.
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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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Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
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I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.
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I am one of those who like to stay late at the cafe," the older waiter said. "With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night." "I want to go home and into bed." "We are of two different kinds," the older waiter said. He was now dressed to go home. "It is not only a question of youth and confidence although those things are very beautiful. Each night. I am reluctant to close up because there may be someone who needs the cafe.
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I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.
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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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One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.
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He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone
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What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and lots of times they don't even know they have it — that's in the first reader for squares — is, no matter how they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.
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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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The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.
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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
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In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.
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Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.
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I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.
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It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
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The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.
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I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.
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Religion is the opium of the poor.
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He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.