The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry. — 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
I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I have tried simply to write the best I can; sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.” — 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
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and… — 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
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
“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
“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 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
“I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in… — 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
Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well,… — 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
In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written… — 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
Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing. — 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
“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
Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing! — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. — 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
Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers. — 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
You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. — 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
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
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
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
