Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
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Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.
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The writer's job is to tell the truth.
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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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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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I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.
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They arrested us after breakfast.
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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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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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Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.
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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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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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Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together." Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me. Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?
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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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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
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There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests.
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Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey
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I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.
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You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.
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[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!
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The smallest coffins are the heaviest.
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French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.
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I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.
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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.