Ernest Hemingway Quotes
-
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.
-
Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.
-
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.
-
Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.
-
But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.
-
Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.
-
The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
-
Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.
-
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.
-
The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.
-
Hombre, there are bodegas open all night long.
-
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
-
You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
-
As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notion of glory, nor if he wins far enough, will he find anything within himself.
-
No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.
-
A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.
-
Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.
-
I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.
-
Being against evil doesn't make you good.
-
There are worse places to be than on your own.
-
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
-
Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
-
Drinking is a way of ending the day.
-
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.