Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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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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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.
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I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be
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I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.
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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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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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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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My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.
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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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I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
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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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Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.
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The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.
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My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.
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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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(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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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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It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.
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Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.
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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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Write hard and clear about what hurts.
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Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
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If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.