Quotes from Ernest Hemingway
Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.
- Ernest Hemingway
Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.
- Ernest Hemingway
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.
- Ernest Hemingway
There's nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility is being superior to your former self.
- Ernest Hemingway
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
- Ernest Hemingway
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
- Ernest Hemingway
When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.
- Ernest Hemingway
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
- Ernest Hemingway
A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.
- Ernest Hemingway
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
- Ernest Hemingway
Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear, and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses, he will endure or be forgotten.
- Ernest Hemingway
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.
- Ernest Hemingway