I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
Ernest Hemingway |
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
Ernest Hemingway |
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway |
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
Ernest Hemingway |
If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
Ernest Hemingway |
There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
Ernest Hemingway |
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.
Ernest Hemingway |
To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
Ernest Hemingway |
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.
Ernest Hemingway |
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway |
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.
Ernest Hemingway |
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway |
Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
Ernest Hemingway |
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Ernest Hemingway |
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway |
When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.
Ernest Hemingway |
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway |
I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
Ernest Hemingway |
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
Ernest Hemingway |
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
Ernest Hemingway |
