Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“A writer's style should be direct and personal, his imagery rich and earthy, and his words simple and vigorous. The greatest writers… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Tolstoi made the writing of Stephen Crane on the Civil War seem like the brilliant imagining of a sick boy who had… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“First, there must be talent, much talent. Talent such as Kipling had. Then there must be discipline. The discipline of Flaubert. Then… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Allow me to pay this small tribute to you who taught so much to those of us who wanted to be writers… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather… — 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
