Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.
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A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.
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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.
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Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.
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When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.
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Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.
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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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Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.
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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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The only kind of writing is rewriting.
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My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.
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Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
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I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.
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The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.
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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?
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The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.
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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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However you make your living is where your talent lies.
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You'll lose it, if you talk about it
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You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafTs.
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I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.
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To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.
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The first draft of anything is sh*t.