Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.
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A continent ages quickly once we come. The natives live in harmony with it. But the foreigner destroys, cuts down the trees, drains the water, so that the water supply is altered, and in a short time the soil, once the sod is turned under, is cropped out and, next, it starts to blow away as it has blown away in every old country and as I had seen it start to blow in Canada. The earth gets tired of being exploited.
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You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.
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It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
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To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.
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I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.
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Most people never listen.
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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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Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.
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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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We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.
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Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.
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The shortest answer is doing the thing.
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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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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.
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We who have seen him now, light on his feet, smooth moving as a leopard, a young man with an old man's science, the most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen, may live to see him fat, slow, old, and bald taking a beating from a younger man. But I would like to hazard a prediction that whoever beats Joe Louis in an honest fight in the next fifteen years will have to get up the floor to do it.
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You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight.
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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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There isnt always an explanation for everything.
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No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.