Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.
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In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.
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Rereading places you at the point where it has to go on, knowing it is as good as you can get it up to there. There is always juice somewhere.
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Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.
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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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I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
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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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Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.
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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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It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.
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The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.
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Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.
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Live it up so you can write it down.
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I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.
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Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.
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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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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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I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.
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My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.
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My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.
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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
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(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.
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We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.