Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
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The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.
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A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.
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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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The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
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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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Drinking is a way of ending the day.
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I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.
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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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The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.
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Being against evil doesn't make you good.
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I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.
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To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it's over but in a way it will never be over and I do know that I for sure loved this person, to be able to say that and mean it, that's rare. That's rare and valuable.
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All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.
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Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.
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And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.
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My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
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I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.
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The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave.
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The further you go in writing the more alone you are.
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Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.
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Isn't it pretty to think so.
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But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.
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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.