Ernest Hemingway Quotes

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 forgetting that you are special too.

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 who would keep that from 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 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 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 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.

The first draft of anything is shit.

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.

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 you were born that way.

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 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 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.

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 vein.