Ifs Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

If a writer stops observing, he is finished.

— Ernest Hemingway

If you're looking for messages, try Western Union.

— Ernest Hemingway

Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

— Ernest Hemingway

Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.

— Ernest Hemingway

“If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.”

— Ernest Hemingway

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

— Ernest Hemingway

Everything is your fault if you're any damn good.

— Ernest Hemingway

You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor…

— Ernest Hemingway

The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

— Ernest Hemingway

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill…

— Ernest Hemingway

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast…

— Ernest Hemingway

The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which…

— Ernest Hemingway

You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more…

— Ernest Hemingway

There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of…

— Ernest Hemingway

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just…

— Ernest Hemingway

I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at…

— Ernest Hemingway

I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then…

— Ernest Hemingway

If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be…

— Ernest Hemingway

I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do…

— Ernest Hemingway

Tell me some true things about fighting.''Tell me you love me.''I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the…

— Ernest Hemingway

War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual…

— Ernest Hemingway

Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If…

— Ernest Hemingway

It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You…

— 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

Until the dead are buried they change somewhat in appearance each day. The color change in Caucasian races is from white to…

— Ernest Hemingway

I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come…

— Ernest Hemingway

Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things…

— 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

The further you go in writing the more alone you are. Most of your best and oldest friends die. Others move away.…

— Ernest Hemingway

My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good…

— Ernest Hemingway

No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But…

— Ernest Hemingway

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no…

— Ernest Hemingway

If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all…

— Ernest Hemingway

He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.

— Ernest Hemingway

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be…

— Ernest Hemingway

How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of…

— Ernest Hemingway

As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his…

— Ernest Hemingway

Ronda is the place where to go, if you are planning to travel to Spain for a honeymoon or for being with…

— Ernest Hemingway

You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do…

— Ernest Hemingway