Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

"I drink to make other people more interesting."
182 Quotes
"I drink to make other people more interesting."
Ernest Hemingway
"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."
Ernest Hemingway
"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way."
Ernest Hemingway
"The first draft of anything is shit."
Ernest Hemingway
"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
Ernest Hemingway
"“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.”"
Ernest Hemingway
"There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games."
Ernest Hemingway
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
Ernest Hemingway The Garden of Eden
"No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful."
Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms
"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."
Ernest Hemingway
"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."
Ernest Hemingway
"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer."
Ernest Hemingway
"The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind and rowed out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean."
Ernest Hemingway
"What you don't write is often more important than what you do"
Ernest Hemingway
"Prose is architecture, not interior decoration."
Ernest Hemingway
"Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine."
Ernest Hemingway
"Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job."
Ernest Hemingway
"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."
Ernest Hemingway
"Hem,' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of a sentence rather than at the end."
Ernest Hemingway
"I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg."
Ernest Hemingway
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