Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.
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It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.
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I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.
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Please tell me what can I do. There must be something I can do
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America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.
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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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Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.
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Good writing is good conversation, only more so.
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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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Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.
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It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.
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The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.
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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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In order to write about life first you must live it.
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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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Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.
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This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought that we did not deserve to live in the world if we did not see it.
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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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And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.
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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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But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.
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Write drunk; edit sober.
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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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I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.