Books Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

“The author must write what he has to say, not speak it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Easy reading is hard writing,”

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

Having books published is very destructive to writing.

— Ernest Hemingway

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel...

— Ernest Hemingway

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

— Ernest Hemingway

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

— Ernest Hemingway

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

— Ernest Hemingway

There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.

— Ernest Hemingway

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.

— Ernest Hemingway

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

— Ernest Hemingway

You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.

— Ernest Hemingway

Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— 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

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed…

— 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

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

— Ernest Hemingway

The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you…

— 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

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

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

— 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

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the…

— Ernest Hemingway

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well…

— Ernest Hemingway

“If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows and the…

— 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

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

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

— Ernest Hemingway

You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go…

— 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

“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 writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. If a writer can…

— Ernest Hemingway

“To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was…

— 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

“That something I cannot yet define completely but the feeling comes when you write well and truly of something and know impersonally…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I even read aloud the part of the novel I had rewritten, which is about as low as a writer can get…

— 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