Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.
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Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is
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In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.
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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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A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
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But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.
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A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.
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When you have a child, the world has a hostage.
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I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.
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To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.
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To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.
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A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.
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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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What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?
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However you make your living is where your talent lies.
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The only kind of writing is rewriting.
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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 lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!
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It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.
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People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.
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Hunger is good discipline.
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America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.
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The further you go in writing the more alone you are. Most of your best and oldest friends die. Others move away. You do not see them except rarely, but you write and have much the same contact with them as though you were together at the café in the old days. You exchange comic, sometimes cheerfully obscene and irresponsible letters, and it is almost as good as talking. But you are more alone because that is how you must work and the time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you feel you have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.
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You don't have to destroy me. Do you? I'm only a woman who loves you and wants to do what you want to do. I've been destroyed two or three times already. You wouldn't want to destroy me again, would you?