Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.
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When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.
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We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.
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Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.
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Hunger is good discipline.
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I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.
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Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.
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The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education.
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Most people never listen.
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Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.
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A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.
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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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There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.
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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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How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
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I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.
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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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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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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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Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.
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The best writing is certainly when you are in love
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Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.
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You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.