Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
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He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.
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How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.
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For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.
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Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.
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I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way.
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The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.
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It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.
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I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.
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Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
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All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
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He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.
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Write drunk; edit sober.
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Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good.
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There is no rule on how to write.
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The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.
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You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow.
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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.
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Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.
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The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.
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It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
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I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
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Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
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We wait always for something that does not come.