All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“It's this way, see--when a writer first starts out, he gets a big kick from the stuff he does, and the reader… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the… — 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
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“if I had waited long enough I probably never would have written anything at all since there is a tendency when you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You write a book like that that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“For a writer to put his own intellectual musings, which he might sell for a low price as essays, into the mouths… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well.” — 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
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
