Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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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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Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.
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There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
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Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.
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Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.
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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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Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.
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You never understand anybody that loves you.
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God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her
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Good writing is good conversation, only more so.
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As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.
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Isn't it pretty to think so.
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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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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.
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You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.
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It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
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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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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 kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.
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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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It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped over a stick.
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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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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.