Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Most people never listen.
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A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.
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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.
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There are worse places to be than on your own.
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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
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First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.
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If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
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If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.
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I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.
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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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If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.
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I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you
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When things are going well, I like to have people to share it with. I've been alone in troubled times, and I don't mind that. Some things have to be endured alone. As Hemingway said, the human being is strong in all the broken places.
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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 me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors.
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She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.
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Drinking is a way of ending the day.
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The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
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Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.
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In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.
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A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.
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You don't have to destroy me. Do you?
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My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.