The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Don’t worry about me talking,” he said. “I have a living to make. You know in Africa no woman ever misses her… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“People who interfered in your life always did it for your own good and I figured it out finally that what they… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Life had seemed so simple that morning when I had wakened and found the false spring… But Paris was a very old… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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 Image
Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
