Knows Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

“Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.

— Ernest Hemingway

God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her

— Ernest Hemingway

How little we know of what there is to know.

— Ernest Hemingway

Always quit for the day when you know what you want to do next.

— Ernest Hemingway

All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.

— Ernest Hemingway

“He'll never be frightened. He knows too damn much.”

— Ernest Hemingway

You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.

— 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

When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change…

— Ernest Hemingway

Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come…

— Ernest Hemingway

It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is…

— Ernest Hemingway

“So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is…

— Ernest Hemingway

I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.

— Ernest Hemingway

When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis…

— Ernest Hemingway

God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.

— Ernest Hemingway

In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it…

— Ernest Hemingway

You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go…

— 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

You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless…

— Ernest Hemingway

“To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it’s over but in…

— Ernest Hemingway

No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is…

— Ernest Hemingway

To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to…

— Ernest Hemingway

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

In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they…

— 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

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the…

— Ernest Hemingway

The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being…

— Ernest Hemingway

You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the…

— Ernest Hemingway

I'm not advocating the strenuous life for everyone or trying to say it's the choice form of life. Anyone who's had the…

— Ernest Hemingway

When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. .…

— Ernest Hemingway

We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man,…

— Ernest Hemingway

I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.

— Ernest Hemingway

What did I know best that I had not written about and Lost? What did I know about truly and care for…

— Ernest Hemingway

There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and…

— Ernest Hemingway

Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know…

— Ernest Hemingway

Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have…

— 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