Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope).
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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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You'll lose it, if you talk about it
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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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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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'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'
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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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Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed. All politics is a matter of working hard without reward, or with a living wage for a time, in the hope of booty later. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador or have a million copies of his books printed by the Government or any of the other rewards the boys dream about.
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He's a great writer. If I didn't think so I wouldn't have tried to kill him... I was the champ and when I read his stuff I knew he had something. So I dropped a heavy glass skylight on his head at a drinking party. But you can't kill the guy. He's not human.
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I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead.
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Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.
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Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.
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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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The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.
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Write drunk; edit sober.
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Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.
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When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.
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Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.
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I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.
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The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.
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This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it
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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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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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Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well