Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?
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Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.
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Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.
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It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.
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Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ.
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The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
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Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.
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My big fish must be somewhere.
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Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet.
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A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.
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I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent.
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The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.
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The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.
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My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.
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I belong to this notebook and this pencil.
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Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.
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I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.
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In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
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The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.
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There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
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Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.
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He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.
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Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
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Work could cure almost anything