99+ Ernest Hemingway Quotes on Books, Good and The Garden of Eden - Quotes.pub

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A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him.

There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers.

Book Quotes

I’m always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I’ll always be in supply.

Book Quotes Reading Quotes

Easy writing makes hard reading.

Reading Quotes

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

Lonely Quotes

Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

Humility Quotes

Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.

Worry Quotes

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Fear Quotes

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

Stories Quotes

You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood.

Stories Quotes

Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

Stories Quotes

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

Stories Quotes

Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

Stories Quotes

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

Being strong Quotes

I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.

A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.

Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I’ll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate.

We wait always for something that does not come.

Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early ’forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.

It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped over a stick.

Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.

Book Quotes

I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.

It’s a town you come to for a short time.

The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.

I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.

Stories Quotes

My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

If you’re looking for messages, try Western Union.

Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.

The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don’t worry.

Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.

It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance.

Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.

Stories Quotes

A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.

It wasn’t by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

I’m not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day’s work.

The most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen.

Oh, darling, I’ve been so miserable.

Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.

Country Quotes

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder.

Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well.