Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I would like to bear thy son and hy daughter," she told hime. "And how can the world be made better if… — 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
“There are always mystical countries that are a part of one's childhood. Those we remember and visit sometimes when we are asleep… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“We were no longer, technically, children although in many ways I am quite sure that we were. Childish has become a term… — 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
