Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.
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There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.
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Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.
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My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.
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It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
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If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
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Good writing is good conversation, only more so.
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He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.
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Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.
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Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
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For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit?s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit?s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.
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I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.
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My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.
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It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
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And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.
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But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.
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For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.
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As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.
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Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).
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The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.
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Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.
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Look at things and listen and feel.
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It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped over a stick.
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Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.