Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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.
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Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.
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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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Being against evil doesn't make you good.
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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.
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He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.
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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.
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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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When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to you. After being severely wounded two weeks before my nineteenth birthday I had a bad time until I figured out that nothing could happen to me that had not happened to all men before me. Whatever I had to do men had always done. If they had done it then I could do it too and the best thing was not to worry about it.
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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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I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.
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The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
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Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.
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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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Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.
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Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.
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God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.
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I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.
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You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
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Hombre, there are bodegas open all night long.
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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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Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.
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Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?
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A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.