I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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
Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“In truly good writing no matter how many times you read it you do not know how it is done. That is… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph. — 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
“Writing. It is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“For God sake write and don't worry about what the boys will say nor whether it will be a masterpiece nor what.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
A writer's problem does not change. It is always how to write truly and having found out what is true to project… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it… — 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
