Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Writing. It is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
i believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try and make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can… — 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 believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well… — 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
If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly.… — 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. He… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. If a writer can… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The further you go in writing the more alone you are. Most of your best and oldest friends die. Others move away.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Then I started to think in Lipp’s about when I had first been able to write a story about losing everything. It… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total of knowledge which is there at the disposal of the next writer… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“This too to remember. If a man writes clearly enough any one can see if he fakes. If he mystifies to avoid… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“First, there must be talent, much talent. Talent such as Kipling had. Then there must be discipline. The discipline of Flaubert. Then… — 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
