Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Yes, they have more money.

One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.

You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.

I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.

All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.

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

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

I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.

Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone

The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.

Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.

He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.

The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

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

Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder.

Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate.

I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.

Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.

Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.

When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.

Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.

Please tell me what can I do. There must be something I can do

Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.

I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

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.

Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.

How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.

I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.

Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.

For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.

I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.

When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.

Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.

If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?

You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight.

A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.

I am like a blind pig when I work.

If you're looking for messages, try Western Union.

If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take away everything?

Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.

Where do the noses go? I always wondered where the noses would go.

I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.

You don't have to destroy me. Do you?

We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.

Having books published is very destructive to writing.