I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“For one person who likes Spain there are a dozen who prefer books on her.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I have tried simply to write the best I can; sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast -… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, “Do not worry. You have always written before and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is nothing to writing, you just sit at a type writer and bleed. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply? — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“write. There was going to be everything that a man needed to write except to be alone. Zelda” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Scott took LITERATURE so solemnly. He never understood that it was just writing as well as you can and finishing what you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“A writer's style should be direct and personal, his imagery rich and earthy, and his words simple and vigorous. The greatest writers… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing… — 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
