Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
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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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I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. ... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.
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A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.
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Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.
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And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.
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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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Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.
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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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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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Not the why but the what.
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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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Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.
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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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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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No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.
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So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
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The further you go in writing the more alone you are.
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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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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
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Drinking is a way of ending the day.
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Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
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Isn't it pretty to think so.
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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.