One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Tell him I think writing is lousy," Bill said. "Go on, tell him. Tell him I'm ashamed of being a writer.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“For God sake write and don't worry about what the boys will say nor whether it will be a masterpiece nor what.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The hardest thing in the world to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you to know the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Tolstoi made the writing of Stephen Crane on the Civil War seem like the brilliant imagining of a sick boy who had… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“It's this way, see--when a writer first starts out, he gets a big kick from the stuff he does, and the reader… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“if I had waited long enough I probably never would have written anything at all since there is a tendency when you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“In Dostoevsky there were things unbelievable and not to be believed, but some so true they changed you as you read them;… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“For a writer to put his own intellectual musings, which he might sell for a low price as essays, into the mouths… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“And we’re going to have all the books in the world to read and when we go on trips we can take… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing! — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. — 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
