One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war. — 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. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after… — 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
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they… — 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
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
“Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book.” — 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
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
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
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 Image
“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 Image
“It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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 Image
Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image