Ernest Hemingway, Quotes

With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night.

What did I know best that I had not written about
and Lost? What did I know about truly and care for the most?

Do you want to keep your knee, young man?'
'No', I said.
'What?'
'I want it cut off,' I said, 'so I can wear a hook on it.

Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago

Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.

For one person who likes Spain there are a dozen who prefer books on her.

There is milk? What luxury!

He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.

Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.

The smallest coffins are the heaviest.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Road to hell paved in unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.

In those days, there was no money to buy books.

I know you're right. I'm just low, and when I'm low I talk like a fool.

The only decent bone in her body was mine.

Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.

Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.

I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.

The fish is calm and steady. I will eat it all and then I will be ready.

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

You talk like a time-table. Did you have any beautiful adventures?

You had to trust the people you worked with completely or not at all, and you had to make decisions about the trusting.

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.

Do you feel better?' he asked.
'I feel fine,' she said. 'There's nothing wrong with me. I feel fine.

The war seemed as far away as the football games of someone else's college.

Never mistake motion for action.

Scott took LITERATURE so solemnly. He never understood that it was just writing as well as you can and finishing what you start.

Woman are a nuisance on Safari.

The first draft of anything is shit.

I would not wish to bring either a son or a daughter into this world as this world is. And also you take all the love I have to give

Never mistake motive for action.

I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

Write as well as you can and finish what you start.

Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged.

Besides, I'm not jealous. I'm just so in love with you that there isn't anything else.

This is a good place," he said.
"There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.

A writer of fiction is really ... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.

You could not go back. If you did not go forward what happened?

The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.

I'm not brave any more darling. I'm all broken. They've broken me.

Let's drop the war.'
'It's very hard. There's no place to drop it.

The grain-fields went up the hillsides. Now as we went higher there was a wind blowing the grain.

I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.

He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.

Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.

We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

I've had plenty to worry about one time or other. I'm through worrying.

Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.

I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life

You know you're writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

They are not sorrows, so much as terrible things.

I wondered ... if there should be anything wrong with Sen. Joe McCarthy (Republican) of Wisconsin which a .577 solid would not cure.

In a war we must all be careful not to hurt each other's feelings.

I have a Thompson SubMachine gun and we shoot sharks with it. As soon as they put their heads out we give them a burst.

And this,' he was saying aloud. 'And this. And this.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

A cat has absolute honesty.

Life is pain, so live it up while you can.

I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.

In a snowstorm it always seemed, for a time, as though there were no enemies.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

Don't bother with churches, government buildings or city squares, if you want to know about a culture, spend a night in its bars

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

I kissed her neck and shoulders. I felt faint with loving her so much.

Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.

He killed more men than the cholera.

It is silly not to hope,

If I do it you won't ever worry?'
'I won't worry about that because it's perfectly simple.'
Then I'll do it. Because I don't care about me.

And we'll never love anyone else but each other.

I was blown up while we were eating cheese.

Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

Don't ever kid yourself with too much dialectics.

No one ever stopped when they were winning.

Half a million dead wops
And he got a kick out of it
The son of a bitch.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

I felt very lonely when they were all there.

A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.

Do you suppose it will always go on?"
"No."
"What's to stop it?"
It will crack somewhere.

A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.

I am an old man who will live until I die, Anselmo said.

I never had to choose my subject- my subject rather chose me.

Good. Coffee is good for you. It's the caffeine in it. Caffeine, we are here. Caffeine puts a man on her horse and a woman in his grave.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.

Lie life through its fullest

I wonder if he has any plans or if he is just as desperate as I am?

Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.

She told me, and she would be. She told me that I was not a good enough writer to be published there

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

He used the word gamut.

Now, feel. I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. And feel now. Thou hast no heart but mine.