Ernest Hemingway Quotes

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.. Ernest

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and

I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear

Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.

I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the

I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed..

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

The first draft of anything is shit.. Ernest Hemingway

The first draft of anything is shit.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.. Ernest Hemingway

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't

Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing.

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed..

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.. Ernest Hemingway

Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.

There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a

There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.

It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.

People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.

What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

You know you’re writing well when you’re throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

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 writers have had it.

You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know

I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced...

Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.

I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.

World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.

Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

I didn't want to kiss you goodbye - that was the trouble - I wanted to kiss you good night - and there's a lot of difference.

Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.
Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?

God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sorts of things went through my head but I felt wonderful...

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without

All thinking men are atheists.

There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

You are going to die like a dog for no good reason

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Don't you believe I love you? Don't know how I can make you believe. I didn't want to kiss you goodbye-that was the trouble-I wanted to kiss you goodnight. […] Of course I love you. I love you all the time. […] I'd like to hold you and kiss you so that you wouldn't doubt whether I wanted to or not.

The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought

But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.

I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima

wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks'. 'eat a egg

He can't have gone, he said "Christ know he can't have gone. He's making a turn. Maybe he has been hooked before and her remembers something of it." The he felt the gentle touch on the line and he was happy.

Then too you are in love. Do not forget that is a religious feeling.

Religion is the opium of the poor

How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own personal fallability of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Majakowski.

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.

But I could tell thee of other things, Inglés, and do not doubt what thou simply cannot see nor cannot hear. Thou canst not hear what a dog hears. Nor canst thou smell what a dog smells. But already thou hast experienced a little of what can happen to man.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

مرد نابود میشه ولی شکست نمیخوره

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.

He had only one thing to do and that was what he should think about and he must think it out clearly and take everything as it came along, and not worry. To worry was a bad as to be afraid. It simply made things more difficult.

In those days, there was no money to buy books.

In Dostoevsky there were things unbelievable and not to be believed, but some so true they changed you as you read them; frailty and madness, wickedness and saintliness, and the insanity of gambling were there to know as you knew the landscape and the roads in turgenev

She looked fresh and young and very beautiful. I thought I had never seen any one so beautiful. ‘Hello,’ I said. When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me

You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes.

Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book.

And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.

I had an inheritance from my father,
It was the moon and the sun.
And though I roam all over the world,
The spending of it’s never done.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did not
completely trust anyone.

I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last country to realize they were cooked would win the war.

Named Harris," Bill said. "Ever know him, Mike? He was in the war, too."

"Fortunate fellow," Mike said. "What times we had. How I wish those dear days were back.

Why must man not marry?" "He cannot marry. He cannot marry," he said angrily. "If he is to lose everything, he should not place himself in a position to lose that. He should not place himself in a position to lose. He should find things he cannot lose.

But these, wide-finned in silver, roaring, the light mist of their propellers in the sun, these do not move like sharks. They move like nothing there has ever been. They move like mechanized doom.

That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you.

Are you a communist?"
"No I am an anti-fascist"
"For a long time?"
"Since I have understood fascism.

The priest was good but dull. The officers were not good but dull. The King was good but dull. The wine was bad but not dull.

Even when you have learned not to look at families nor listen to them and have learned not to answer letters, families have many ways of being dangerous.

The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.

Then he was sorry for the great fish... How many people will he feed?.. But are they worthy to eat him? No, of course, not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity.

Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.

Women made such swell friends. Awfully swell. In the first place, you had to be in love with a woman to have a basis of friendship.

It is usually impossible for a large body of people to support themselves indefinitely by borrowing money, although a few people enjoy a great success at it for a time.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.

(Interview with Paris Review, 1958)

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