Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that.
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No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
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I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
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I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.
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Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.
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The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.
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No well-run yacht basin in Southern waters is complete without at least two sun-burned, salt bleached-headed Esthonians who are waiting for a check from their last article. When it comes they will set sail to another yacht basin and write another saga.
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I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
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Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey
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Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.
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He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.
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It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.
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Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.
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A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
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They arrested us after breakfast.
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There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests.
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Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.
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I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.
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Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
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The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.
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We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.
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Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.
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I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.