Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“If a man liked his friends' painting or writing, I thought it was probably like those people who like their families, and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't. — 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
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. If a writer can… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“In those days there was no money to buy books. Books you borrowed from the rental library of Shakespeare and Company, which… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Maybe away from Paris I could write about Paris as in Paris I could write about Michigan. I did not know it… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after the first light as possible.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Tell him I think writing is lousy," Bill said. "Go on, tell him. Tell him I'm ashamed of being a writer.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't… — 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
