Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.
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I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.
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Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.
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This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.
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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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I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.
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Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.
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No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.
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The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.
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You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.
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Isn't it pretty to think so.
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You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.
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But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.
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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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I do not want you ever to initiate any action for any refunds of taxes without first consulting me and presenting the matter fully to me so that I may judge whether it is an honorable and ethical action to take, not simply legally, but according to my own personal standards.
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When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.
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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
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Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.
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The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.
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You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.
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How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.
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For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.
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I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.
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It is very bad for (an artist) to talk about how he (creates). It is not the (artist's) province to explain or to run guided tours through the more difficult country of his work. It's none of their business that you had to learn. Let them think you were born that way.