Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
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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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There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.
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Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?
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Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.
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In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
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This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it
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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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So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.
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Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.
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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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War is not won by victory.
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The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.
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Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming your friend for any obscure reason. If you want people to like you you have only to spend a little money. I spent a little money and the waiter liked me. He appreciated my valuable qualities. He would be glad to see me, and would want me at his table. It would be a sincere liking because it would have a sound basis. I was back in France.
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I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.
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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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Never confuse motions with action.
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I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.
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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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The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.
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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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Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.
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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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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.