Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.
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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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In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.
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But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.
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When you have a child, the world has a hostage.
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It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.
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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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I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.
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Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.
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A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.
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Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
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America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.
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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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That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
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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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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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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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Hunger is good discipline.
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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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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 never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.
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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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However you make your living is where your talent lies.