Ernest Hemingway
Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.Collection: Writing
We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war. There is a class that control a country that is stupid and down not realise anything and never can. That is why we have this war. Also they make money out of it.Collection: Country
He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.Collection: Hurt
My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.Collection: Heart
The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.Collection: World
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.Collection: Life
Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.Collection: Drinking
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.Collection: War
Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.Collection: Crazy
The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.Collection: Ocean
The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.Collection: Fun
But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.Collection: Writing
The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.Collection: Writing
My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.Collection: Writing
Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.Collection: Lying
He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.Collection: Girl
I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.Collection: Good Day
As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen.Collection: Beautiful
It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.Collection: Fear
One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.Collection: Moving
Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.Collection: Death
Everybody has something wrong with them.Collection: Faults
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.Collection: Reading
I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.Collection: Relationship
Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.Collection: Optimism
The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.Collection: Telephones
I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me.Collection: Tired
When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.Collection: Love You
Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.Collection: Writing
First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.Collection: Discipline
If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.Collection: Crazy
I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.Collection: Today
You'll lose it, if you talk about itCollection: Ifs
we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.Collection: Love
All thinking men are atheists.Collection: Inspirational
The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.Collection: Time
And another thing. Don’t ever kid yourself about loving some one. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever to have it. You never had it before and now you have it. What you have with Maria, whether it lasts just through today and a part of tomorrow, or whether it lasts for a long life is the most important thing that can happen to a human being. There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.Collection: Kids
The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.Collection: Inspiring
The first draft of anything is sh*t.Collection: Inspiring
Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.Collection: Eye
Before you quit, you have to tryCollection: Trying
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.Collection: People
Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.Collection: Chance
Worry destroys the ability to write.Collection: Writing
'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'Collection: Safety
If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.Collection: Writing
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.Collection: Book
If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.Collection: Writing
I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.Collection: Rotten