Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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Now Catherine would die. That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you.
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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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And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.
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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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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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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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A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
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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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Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.
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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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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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Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
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We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.
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The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.
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Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.
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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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Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.
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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.
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Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.
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To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.
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The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.