It's none of their business that you had to learn how to write. Let them think that you were born that way. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO He was thinking well, a little too well” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. de Maupassant. I've fought… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“There was no wind, and, outside now of the warm air of the cave, heavy with smoke of both tobacco and charcoal, with the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“We drove out along the coast road. There was the green of the headlands, the white, red-roofed villas, patches of forest, and the ocean… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“You find everything on earth at Harry's." "Yes, my Colonel. Except, possibly, happiness." "I'll damn well find happiness, too," the Colonel assured him. "Happiness,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“No. It's bad for me. Cole Porter wrote the words and the music. This knowledge that you're going mad for me.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“everything kills everything else in some way. Fishing kills me exactly as it keeps me alive. The boy keeps me alive, he thought. I… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
