Way Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

— Ernest Hemingway

The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.

— Ernest Hemingway

How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.

— Ernest Hemingway

How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.

— Ernest Hemingway

We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.

— Ernest Hemingway

Drinking is a way of ending the day.

— Ernest Hemingway

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

— Ernest Hemingway

I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.

— Ernest Hemingway

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make…

— Ernest Hemingway

My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.

— Ernest Hemingway

Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when…

— Ernest Hemingway

I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.

— Ernest Hemingway

Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.

— Ernest Hemingway

You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people…

— Ernest Hemingway

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

— Ernest Hemingway

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish…

— Ernest Hemingway

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well…

— Ernest Hemingway

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days…

— 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

For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to…

— 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

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That…

— 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

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

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

How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of…

— Ernest Hemingway

The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals…

— Ernest Hemingway

The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then…

— Ernest Hemingway

The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from…

— Ernest Hemingway

She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out…

— 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

It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop…

— Ernest Hemingway

The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.

— Ernest Hemingway

Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've…

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was…

— Ernest Hemingway

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same.…

— Ernest Hemingway

“To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it’s over but in…

— Ernest Hemingway

There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers…

— 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