I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came… — 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
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have… — 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
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
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
In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting… — 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
“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
“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
“The only writing that was any good was what you made up, what you imagined. That made everything come true. Everything good… — 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
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know… — 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
A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutable as those of flight,… — 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
Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and… — 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
“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
(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
After you finish a book, you know, you're dead. But no one knows you're dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Write the truest sentence you know. Then write another." -- Hemingway's advice to other young writers in "A Moveable Feast.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as… — 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
“You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the… — 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
Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be… — 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
