Books Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

— Ernest Hemingway

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

— Ernest Hemingway

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel...

— Ernest Hemingway

Having books published is very destructive to writing.

— Ernest Hemingway

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

— Ernest Hemingway

“The author must write what he has to say, not speak it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

“Easy reading is hard writing,”

— Ernest Hemingway

“How good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he…

— Ernest Hemingway

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

— Ernest Hemingway

Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

— Ernest Hemingway

I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

— Ernest Hemingway

No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.

— Ernest Hemingway

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

— Ernest Hemingway

You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.

— Ernest Hemingway

There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.

— Ernest Hemingway

When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after the first light as possible.…

— Ernest Hemingway

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Churchill drank twice what I did if you could believe the accounts and he had just been awarded the Nobel Prize for…

— Ernest Hemingway

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the…

— Ernest Hemingway

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was…

— Ernest Hemingway

Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love…

— Ernest Hemingway

You write a book like that that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like…

— Ernest Hemingway

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed…

— Ernest Hemingway

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading…

— Ernest Hemingway

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading…

— Ernest Hemingway

“In truly good writing no matter how many times you read it you do not know how it is done. That is…

— Ernest Hemingway

It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after…

— Ernest Hemingway

How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of…

— Ernest Hemingway

When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There…

— Ernest Hemingway

“If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows and the…

— Ernest Hemingway

You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go…

— Ernest Hemingway

When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it…

— Ernest Hemingway

“To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was…

— Ernest Hemingway

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. If a writer can…

— Ernest Hemingway

“When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There…

— Ernest Hemingway

“In those days there was no money to buy books. Books you borrowed from the rental library of Shakespeare and Company, which…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total of knowledge which is there at the disposal of the next writer…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Let me tell you something. You won't mind, will you? Don't have scenes with your young ladies. Try not to. Because you…

— Ernest Hemingway

When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There…

— Ernest Hemingway