Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]
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We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.
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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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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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For what are we born if not to aid one another?
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Write as well as you can and finish what you start.
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My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.
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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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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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I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. ... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.
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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
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I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.
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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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When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.
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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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I was blown up while we were eating cheese.
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The best writing is certainly when you are in love
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This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.
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No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.
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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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wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks'. 'eat a egg
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Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.
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We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.
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Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.