Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.
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The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.
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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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Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.
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You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?
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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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Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.
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The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
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Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.
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Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.
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I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.
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Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.
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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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That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
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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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Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.
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If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
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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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The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.
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The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.
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Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
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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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It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.
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I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.