Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.
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I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing.
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Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.
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I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
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You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.
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The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.
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There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
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My big fish must be somewhere.
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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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Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?
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When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.
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A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek.
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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.
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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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It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.
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The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.
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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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The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.
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I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.
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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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Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.
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Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again." "Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?" "Yes. I want to ruin you." "Good," I said. "That's what I want too.
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You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
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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.