Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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I drink to make other people more interesting.
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You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafTs.
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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
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My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.
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Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.
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In those days, there was no money to buy books.
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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 had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.
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Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.
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How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.
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Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is
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Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .
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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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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
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I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.
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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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How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
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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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You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.
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I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.
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Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.
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When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
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We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance
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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.