“Where we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“if I had waited long enough I probably never would have written anything at all since there is a tendency when you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“For a writer to put his own intellectual musings, which he might sell for a low price as essays, into the mouths… — 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
God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“That something I cannot yet define completely but the feeling comes when you write well and truly of something and know impersonally… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows and the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I even read aloud the part of the novel I had rewritten, which is about as low as a writer can get… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Below Les Avants there was a chalet where the pension was wonderful and we would be together and have our books and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of… — 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 I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it… — 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
