Ernest Hemingway Quote #1
…Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done—so I do it. And it makes me happy when I do it well.
Ernest Hemingway Quote #2
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway Quote #3
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Ernest Hemingway Quote #4
A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.
Ernest Hemingway Quote #5
A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.
Ernest Hemingway Quote #6
A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and, having found what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.
Ernest Hemingway Quote #7
A writer's style should be direct and personal, his imagery rich and earthy, and his words simple and vigorous. The greatest writers have the gift of brilliant brevity, are hard workers, diligent scholars and competent stylists.
Ernest Hemingway Quote #8
Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.
Ernest Hemingway Quote #9
After the New Yorker piece I decided that I would never give another interview to anyone on any subject and that I would keep away from all places where I would be likely to be interviewed. If you say nothing it is difficult for someone to get it wrong.
Ernest Hemingway Quote #10
After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day.
Ernest Hemingway Quote #11
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 sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
Ernest Hemingway Quote #12
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.
Ernest Hemingway Quote #13
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
Ernest Hemingway Quote #14
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Ernest Hemingway Quote #15
All thinking men are atheists.
Ernest Hemingway Quote #16
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
Ernest Hemingway Quote #17
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Ernest Hemingway Quote #18
Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.
Ernest Hemingway Quote #19
Are you a communist?
No I am an anti-fascist
For a long time?
Since I have understood fascism.Ernest Hemingway Quote #20
As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.
Ernest Hemingway Quote #21
Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try.
Ernest Hemingway Quote #22
Below Les Avants there was a chalet where the pension was wonderful and we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.
Ernest Hemingway Quote #23
Besides, I'm not jealous. I'm just so in love with you that there isn't anything else.
Ernest Hemingway Quote #24
Blood is thicker than water,
The young man said
As he knifed his friend
For a drooling old bitch
And a house full of lies.Ernest Hemingway Quote #25
But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.
Ernest Hemingway Quote #26
But I could tell thee of other things, Inglés, and do not doubt what thou simply cannot see nor cannot hear. Thou canst not hear what a dog hears. Nor canst thou smell what a dog smells. But already thou hast experienced a little of what can happen to man.
Ernest Hemingway Quote #27
But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.
Ernest Hemingway Quote #28
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway Quote #29
But these, wide-finned in silver, roaring, the light mist of their propellers in the sun, these do not move like sharks. They move like nothing there has ever been. They move like mechanized doom.
Ernest Hemingway Quote #30
But, he thought, I keep them with precision. Only I have no luck anymore. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
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