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Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Ernest Hemingway

American Writer[Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954]

Nationality: American
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Type: Writer
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Birth: 1898-1961
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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
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It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.
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A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
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If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow
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Courage is grace under pressure.
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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
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God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp fo
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That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life i
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Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
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It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read the
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To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
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When writing a novel a Writershould create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
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There is no friend as loyal as a book
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Never confuse motion with action.
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Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.
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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
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Actually if a Writerneeds a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me m
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You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into hi
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All you can be sure about in a political-minded Writeris that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently . Perhaps it can be respected as
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How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a Writeris driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one c
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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.
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There are events which are so great that if a Writerhas participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
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The good parts of a book may be only something a Writeris lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life -and one is as good as the other.
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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and s
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The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too
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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, ''What will you have, sir?'' And I said, ''A glass of hemlock.''
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I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend you to a doctor who will be unable to remove your to
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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.
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What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
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Man is not made for defeat.
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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 f
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It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end
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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
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The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, ''The very rich are different f
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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
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Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
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I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.
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Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
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I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.
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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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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
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The most essential gift for a good Writeris a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
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A serious Writeris not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious Writermay be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn Writeris always a bloody owl.
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Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typeWriterand bleed.
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Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
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I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
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They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.
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The Writermust write what he has to say, not speak it.
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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
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