Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.
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This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.
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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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Write as well as you can and finish what you start.
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Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.
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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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All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
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How little we know of what there is to know.
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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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I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.
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I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
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It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.
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Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.
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Write drunk; edit sober.
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Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.
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To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
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Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.
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I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.
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For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.
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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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Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
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In order to write about life first you must live it.
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How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!
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And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?