Famous Quotes / Ernest Hemingway
147 Quotations by Ernest Hemingway
- 41. How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what ...
- 42. Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.
- 43. I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen the ...
- 44. I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think y ...
- 45. I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another ...
- 46. I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
- 47. I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.
- 48. I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long adv ...
- 49. I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
- 50. I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first t ...
- 51. I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
- 52. I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and ...
- 53. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We ...
- 54. I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you ...
- 55. I'm not going to climb into the ring with Tolstoy.
- 56. I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
- 57. I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once ...
- 58. I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid ...
- 59. If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The digni ...
- 60. If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course ...