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
“In truly good writing no matter how many times you read it you do not know how it is done. That is… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“How good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. If a writer can… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“In those days there was no money to buy books. Books you borrowed from the rental library of Shakespeare and Company, which… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after the first light as possible.… — 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
“Churchill drank twice what I did if you could believe the accounts and he had just been awarded the Nobel Prize for… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“And we’re going to have all the books in the world to read and when we go on trips we can take… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it. ― Ernest Hemingway,… — 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
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Scott took LITERATURE so solemnly. He never understood that it was just writing as well as you can and finishing what you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“It's this way, see--when a writer first starts out, he gets a big kick from the stuff he does, and the reader… — 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
