Hemingway Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

“I'm going to stay with you. If you go to jail, we might as well both go.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“All right, said Nick. Let's get drunk. All right, Bill said. Let's get really drunk.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“I drink to make people more interesting," Ernest Hemingway.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“I always shot scorpions with the .22 pistol.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“You may not believe this. No one believes this, but it is true.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima”

— Ernest Hemingway

that every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a marvelous discovery

— 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

“Did I know him? Did I love him? You ask me that? I knew him like you know nobody in the world,…

— Ernest Hemingway

“The priest was good but dull. The officers were not good but dull. The King was good but dull. The wine was…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to…

— Ernest Hemingway

“You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the…

— Ernest Hemingway

“In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did not completely trust anyone.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“If you had stars inside your brain cells, you'd probably understand what I am talking about.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“The dead do not need to rise. They are a part of the earth now and the earth can never be conquered.…

— Ernest Hemingway

When things are going well, I like to have people to share it with. I've been alone in troubled times, and I…

— Ernest Hemingway

“That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. They threw you in and told you…

— Ernest Hemingway

“It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it. ― Ernest Hemingway,…

— Ernest Hemingway

“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil…

— Ernest Hemingway

“In Dostoevsky there were things unbelievable and not to be believed, but some so true they changed you as you read them;…

— Ernest Hemingway

“The Purdey was not a Purdey but a straight-stocked long-barreled Scott live-pigeon full choke in both barrels thai I had bought from…

— Ernest Hemingway

“The blue-backed notebooks, the two pencils and the pencil sharpener (a pocket knife was too wasteful) the marble-topped tables, the smell of…

— Ernest Hemingway

“The rifle and the pistol are still the equalizer when one man is more of a man than another, and if…he is…

— Ernest Hemingway

“But then we did not think ever of ourselves as poor. We did not accept it. We thought we were superior people…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Hem, you know I don't think that owner's wife where you live likes me. She wouldn't let me wait upstairs for you.'…

— 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

“If the bulls were allowed to increase their knowledge as the bullfighter does, and if those bulls which are not killed in…

— 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

“He remembered the time he had hooked one of a pair of marlin. The male fish always let the female fish feed…

— Ernest Hemingway