Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and… — 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
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens… — 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
Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
And another thing. Don’t ever kid yourself about loving some one. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. The thief when he is not stealing is like another. The extortioner does not… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be… — 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
