Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.
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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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A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.
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The further you go in writing the more alone you are.
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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.
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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
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Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.
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Man is not made for defeat.
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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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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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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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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 best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
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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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It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
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All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.
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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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Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.
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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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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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Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
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Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.
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No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.
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Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.