Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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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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Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.
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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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Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
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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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My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.
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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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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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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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I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you
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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 never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
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We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.
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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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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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Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.
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You don't have to destroy me. Do you?
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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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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
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My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
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The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.