Quotes from Ernest Hemingway
They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.
- Ernest Hemingway
Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.
- Ernest Hemingway
Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.
- Ernest Hemingway
Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.
- Ernest Hemingway
Courage is grace under pressure.
- Ernest Hemingway
It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.
- Ernest Hemingway
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
- Ernest Hemingway
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.
- Ernest Hemingway
Before you act; Listen, before you react; Think, before you spend; Earn, before you criticize; Wait, before you pray; Forgive, before you quit; Try.
- Ernest Hemingway
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bi...ed from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.
- Ernest Hemingway
The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of sh.. that it demanded.
- Ernest Hemingway
When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
- Ernest Hemingway