Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come… — 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
It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go… — 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
You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There… — 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
The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man,… — 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
What did I know best that I had not written about and Lost? What did I know about truly and care for… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know… — 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
The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you… — 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
