Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.
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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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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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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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The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
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I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.
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I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.
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And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.
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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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One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]
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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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Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?
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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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Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
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Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.
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Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
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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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Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.
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Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.
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Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.
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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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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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We wait always for something that does not come.