Trying Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

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— Ernest Hemingway

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

— Ernest Hemingway

I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.

— Ernest Hemingway

Before you quit, you have to try

— Ernest Hemingway

I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that…

— 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 believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then…

— Ernest Hemingway

The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you…

— Ernest Hemingway

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of…

— Ernest Hemingway

I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to…

— Ernest Hemingway

i believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try and make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then…

— Ernest Hemingway

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

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He…

— Ernest Hemingway

When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There…

— Ernest Hemingway

You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go…

— Ernest Hemingway

The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in…

— Ernest Hemingway

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

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

I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what…

— Ernest Hemingway

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

When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it…

— Ernest Hemingway

I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing…

— Ernest Hemingway

It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is…

— Ernest Hemingway

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

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

Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in…

— Ernest Hemingway

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that…

— Ernest Hemingway

Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well,…

— Ernest Hemingway

There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day…

— Ernest Hemingway

Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as…

— Ernest Hemingway