Thinking Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

All thinking men are atheists.

— Ernest Hemingway

Isn't it pretty to think so.

— Ernest Hemingway

“THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO He was thinking well, a little too well”

— Ernest Hemingway

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

— Ernest Hemingway

Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.

— Ernest Hemingway

Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.

— Ernest Hemingway

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

— Ernest Hemingway

It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.

— Ernest Hemingway

But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.

— Ernest Hemingway

It's none of their business that you had to learn how to write. Let them think that you were born that way.

— Ernest Hemingway

I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was…

— Ernest Hemingway

I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

— Ernest Hemingway

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so…

— Ernest Hemingway

Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.

— Ernest Hemingway

I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the…

— Ernest Hemingway

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

Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they…

— Ernest Hemingway

What I learned constructive about women is that no matter how old they get, always think of them the way they were…

— Ernest Hemingway

How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead…

— 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

We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody…

— Ernest Hemingway

I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. de Maupassant. I've fought…

— Ernest Hemingway

He's a great writer. If I didn't think so I wouldn't have tried to kill him... I was the champ and when…

— Ernest Hemingway

Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together." Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing…

— 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

It is very bad for (an artist) to talk about how he (creates). It is not the (artist's) province to explain or…

— Ernest Hemingway

There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That…

— Ernest Hemingway

I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up…

— Ernest Hemingway

But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of…

— Ernest Hemingway

I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.

— Ernest Hemingway

I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you

— Ernest Hemingway

The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.

— Ernest Hemingway

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

— Ernest Hemingway

Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.

— Ernest Hemingway

If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do…

— Ernest Hemingway

My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

— Ernest Hemingway

He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.

— Ernest Hemingway

Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.

— Ernest Hemingway

Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.

— Ernest Hemingway

Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.

— Ernest Hemingway