Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.
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You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.
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Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.
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Develop a built-in bullshit detector.
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I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.
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I loved her and I loved no one else and we had a lovely magic time while we were alone. I worked well and we made great trips, and I thought we were invulnerable again, and it wasn't until we were out of the mountains in late spring, and back in Paris, that the other thing started again.
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There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.
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In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.
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Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.
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You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.
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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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Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well
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Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.
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You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it. Hold it tight.
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Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.
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This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.
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There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.
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This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer.
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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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Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
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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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No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.
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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
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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.