Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Good writing is good conversation, only more so.
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I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.
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When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.
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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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Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?
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you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
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The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.
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If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.
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There is no rule on how to write.
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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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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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I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.
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It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.
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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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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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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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Write drunk; edit sober.
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I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)
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Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.
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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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Life is pain, so live it up while you can.
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Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.
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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 was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.