Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then… — 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
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at… — 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
It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things… — 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
Until the dead are buried they change somewhat in appearance each day. The color change in Caucasian races is from white to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. .… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Ronda is the place where to go, if you are planning to travel to Spain for a honeymoon or for being with… — 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
As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you 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
“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
“It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
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
Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“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
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
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
“You find everything on earth at Harry's." "Yes, my Colonel. Except, possibly, happiness." "I'll damn well find happiness, too," the Colonel assured him. "Happiness,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“No. It's bad for me. Cole Porter wrote the words and the music. This knowledge that you're going mad for me.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“everything kills everything else in some way. Fishing kills me exactly as it keeps me alive. The boy keeps me alive, he thought. I… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
