Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Most people never listen.
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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 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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Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.
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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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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 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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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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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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I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you
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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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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
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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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My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.
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You don't have to destroy me. Do you?
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Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.
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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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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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There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.