Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!
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Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
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Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.
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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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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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The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
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The only kind of writing is rewriting.
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But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.
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In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.
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Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.
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To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.
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Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.
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When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.
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Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.
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There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.
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Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.
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I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.
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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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Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.
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In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.
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All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. Especially do all stories of monogamy end in death, and your man who is monogamous while he often lives most happily, dies in the most lonely fashion.
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Never mistake motion for action.