Ernest Hemingway Quotes Again

“A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.”

― Ernest Hemingway

tags: writers


“I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.”

― Ernest Hemingway



“You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms



“Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea


“Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

tags: living-life-to-the-fullest, the-present



“No one you love is ever truly lost.”

― Ernest Hemingway



“I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.”

― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls




“Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden



“Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good.”

― Ernest Hemingway



“Good writing is good conversation, only more so.”

― Ernest Hemingway




“He always thought of the sea as 'la mar' which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman. Some of the younger fishermen, those who used buoys as floats for their lines and had motorboats, bought when the shark livers had brought much money, spoke of her as 'el mar' which is masculine.They spoke of her as a contestant or a place or even an enemy. But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favours, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them. The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea





“Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.”

― Ernest Hemingway





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

― Ernest Hemingway




“Death is like an old whore in a bar--I'll buy her a drink but I won't go upstairs with her”

― Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not



“The world breaks everyone and afterward some are strong at the broken places.”

― Ernest Hemingway



“Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises







“When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms





“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.”

― Ernest Hemingway


tags: philosophy, writing






“Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms





“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.”

― Ernest Hemingway


tags: writing





“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”

― Ernest Hemingway




“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?”

― Ernest Hemingway





“I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement of waking and not knowing who it was with you, and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms




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

― Ernest Hemingway


tags: creativity, self, self-improvement, words-of-wisdom





“This is a good place," he said.

"There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises





“He'll never be frightened. He knows too damn much.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises


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“Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea








“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.”

― Ernest Hemingway






“This is a hell of dull talk...How about some of that champagne?”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises






“But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.”

― Ernest Hemingway






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

― Ernest Hemingway







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

― Ernest Hemingway





“If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast






“This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it”

― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls





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

― Ernest Hemingway





“I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'"

"This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. you don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. you lose the taste."

Brett's glass was empty.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises





“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





“Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.”

― Ernest Hemingway





“Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary...”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast





“If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.”

― Ernest Hemingway





“You roll back to me.”

― Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream





“My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories





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

― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises









“i believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try and make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. then you write for who you love whether they can read or write or not and whether they are alive or dead.”

― Ernest Hemingway






“That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.”

― Ernest Hemingway



“You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises






“For what are we born if not to aid one another?”

― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls




“That night at the hotel, in our room with the long empty hall outside and our shoes outside the door, a thick carpet on the floor of the room, outside the windows the rain falling and in the room light and pleasant and cheerful, then the light out and it exciting with smooth sheets and the bed comfortable, feeling that we had come home, feeling no longer alone, waking in the night to find the other one there, and not gone away; all other things were unreal. We slept when we were tired and if we woke the other one woke too so one was not alone. Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others ... But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together. I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started. But with Catherine there was almost no difference in the night except that it was an even better time. If people bring so much courage to the world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms



“The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”

― Ernest Hemingway