Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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Religion is the opium of the poor.
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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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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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Anyone can be a fisherman in May.
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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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If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.
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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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If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take away everything?
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And we could have all this,' she said. 'And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.' 'What did you say?' 'I said we could have everything.' 'We can have everything.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can have the whole world.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can go everywhere.' 'No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore.' 'It's ours.' 'No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back.
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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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I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.
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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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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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Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
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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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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
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Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.
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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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I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.
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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
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Time is the least thing we have.
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Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves.
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Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.