Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.
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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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When you have a child, the world has a hostage.
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The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.
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The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.
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Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.
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But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.
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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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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.
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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 The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most.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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Anyone can be a fisherman in May.
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This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it
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Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.
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One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]
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Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.
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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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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
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The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
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You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.
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The only kind of writing is rewriting.
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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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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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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.