The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. — 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
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. — 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
How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What I learned constructive about women is that no matter how old they get, always think of them the way they were… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of… — 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
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
She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop… — 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
“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
“It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
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
Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“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
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
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
“You find everything on earth at Harry's." "Yes, my Colonel. Except, possibly, happiness." "I'll damn well find happiness, too," the Colonel assured him. "Happiness,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“No. It's bad for me. Cole Porter wrote the words and the music. This knowledge that you're going mad for me.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“everything kills everything else in some way. Fishing kills me exactly as it keeps me alive. The boy keeps me alive, he thought. I… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
