Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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Write hard and clear about what hurts.
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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.
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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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Look at things and listen and feel.
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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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Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.
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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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When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.
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There is no rule on how to write.
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In order to write about life first you must live it.
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America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.
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Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.
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Courage is grace under pressure.
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Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?
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Because we would not wear any clothes because it was so hot and the windows open and the swallows flying over the roofs of the houses and when it was dark afterward and you went to the window very small bats hunting over the houses and close down over the trees and we would drink capri and the door locked and it hot and only a sheet and the whole night and we would both love each other all night in the hot night in Milan. That was how it ought to be.
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Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.
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Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well
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What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and lots of times they don't even know they have it — that's in the first reader for squares — is, no matter how they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.
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The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.
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We wait always for something that does not come.
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The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don't worry.
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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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The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.