Ernest Hemingway

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the…

— Ernest Hemingway

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a…

— Ernest Hemingway

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

“I only like two other things; one is bad for my work and the other is over in half an hour or…

— Ernest Hemingway

“- What happens to people that love each other? - I suppose they have whatever they have, and they are more fortunate…

— Ernest Hemingway

“You know the only thing I've ever lost is curiosity," he said to her. "You've never lost anything.You're the most complete man…

— Ernest Hemingway

I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he…

— Ernest Hemingway

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels…

— Ernest Hemingway

“During the night two porpoises came around the boat and he could hear them rolling and blowing. He could tell the difference…

— Ernest Hemingway

“He was asleep in a short time and he dreamed of Africa when he was a boy and the long, golden beaches…

— Ernest Hemingway

“If I walked down by different streets to the Jardin du Luxembourg in the afternoon I could walk through the gardens and…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Zelda was very beautiful and was tanned a lovely gold colour and her hair was a beautiful dark gold and she was…

— Ernest Hemingway

I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and…

— Ernest Hemingway

And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on,…

— Ernest Hemingway

It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an…

— Ernest Hemingway

“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

“For a writer to put his own intellectual musings, which he might sell for a low price as essays, into the mouths…

— Ernest Hemingway

There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words…

— Ernest Hemingway

And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when…

— Ernest Hemingway

Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Ay," he said aloud. There is no translation for this word and perhaps it is just a noise such as a man…

— Ernest Hemingway

Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. The thief when he is not stealing is like another. The extortioner does not…

— Ernest Hemingway

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather…

— Ernest Hemingway

A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a…

— Ernest Hemingway

You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more…

— Ernest Hemingway

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That…

— Ernest Hemingway

A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing…

— Ernest Hemingway

He's a great writer. If I didn't think so I wouldn't have tried to kill him... I was the champ and when…

— Ernest Hemingway

Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I believe that all the people who stand to profit by a war and who help provoke it should be shot on…

— Ernest Hemingway

“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

“Half fish," he said. "Fish that you were. I am sorry that I went too far out. I ruined us both. But…

— Ernest Hemingway

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he…

— Ernest Hemingway

“We both touched wood on the cafe table and the waiter came to see what it was we wanted. But what we…

— Ernest Hemingway

“In the old days he would not have worried, but the fighting part of him was tired now, along with the other…

— Ernest Hemingway

If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you…

— Ernest Hemingway

Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is. Come let us fart in the home. There is no…

— Ernest Hemingway

That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off…

— Ernest Hemingway

“He took the bait like a male and he pulls like a male and his fight has no panic in it. I…

— Ernest Hemingway