I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as… — 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
But don't try to find an untroublesome woman. She will dull out on you. What makes a woman good in bed makes… — 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
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
You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life,… — 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
I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have… — 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
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
I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing… — 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
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
When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in… — 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
There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks? — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to… — 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
I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is… — 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
