Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.

There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.

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

You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.

I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.

Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

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

I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

You'll lose it, if you talk about it

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

Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.

Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.

Hunger is good discipline.

A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.

I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.

If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.

You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.

Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.

And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.

When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.

I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.

When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

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

Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.

And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No

Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful.

You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.

It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.

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.

I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.

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.

Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.