I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Then he was sorry for the great fish... How many people will he feed?.. But are they worthy to eat him? No,… — 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
I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few… — 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
You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is… — 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
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
i believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try and make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then… — 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
I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
And another thing. Don’t ever kid yourself about loving some one. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal… — 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
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
