Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones. — 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
There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come… — 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
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
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
“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
“I even read aloud the part of the novel I had rewritten, which is about as low as a writer can get… — 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
Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do… — 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
