Quotes from Ernest Hemingway
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
- Ernest Hemingway
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.
- Ernest Hemingway
When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.
- Ernest Hemingway
'For Whom the Bell Tolls' was a problem which I carried on each day. I knew what was going to happen in principle. But I invented what happened each day I wrote.
- Ernest Hemingway
You'll ache. And you're going to love it. It will crush you. And you're still going to love all of it.
- Ernest Hemingway
I am always in love.
- Ernest Hemingway
I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.
- Ernest Hemingway
I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.
- Ernest Hemingway
You lose it if you talk about it.
- Ernest Hemingway
To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.
- Ernest Hemingway
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
- Ernest Hemingway
I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.
- Ernest Hemingway