Book Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

In those days, there was no money to buy books.

— Ernest Hemingway

Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.

— Ernest Hemingway

Having books published is very destructive to writing.

— Ernest Hemingway

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

— Ernest Hemingway

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

— Ernest Hemingway

In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.

— Ernest Hemingway

“For one person who likes Spain there are a dozen who prefer books on her.”

— Ernest Hemingway

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader

— Ernest Hemingway

You write a book like that that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like…

— Ernest Hemingway

“This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what…

— Ernest Hemingway

One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

— Ernest Hemingway

No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

“How good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he…

— Ernest Hemingway

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

— Ernest Hemingway

“Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love…

— Ernest Hemingway

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He…

— 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

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was…

— Ernest Hemingway

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

How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of…

— Ernest Hemingway

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There…

— Ernest Hemingway

When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after the first light as possible.…

— Ernest Hemingway

Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making…

— Ernest Hemingway

When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There…

— Ernest Hemingway

In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they…

— Ernest Hemingway

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

When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it…

— Ernest Hemingway

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading…

— Ernest Hemingway

When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There…

— Ernest Hemingway

If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that…

— Ernest Hemingway

“In those days there was no money to buy books. Books you borrowed from the rental library of Shakespeare and Company, which…

— Ernest Hemingway

we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the…

— Ernest Hemingway

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.

— Ernest Hemingway

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one…

— 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

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

If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of…

— Ernest Hemingway

There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came…

— Ernest Hemingway