Top 100 Quotes About Hemingway
#1. I wondered where Cohn got that incapacity to enjoy Paris. Possibly from Mencken. Mencken hates Paris, I believe. So many young men get their likes and dislikes from Mencken.
Ernest Hemingway,
#2. The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
Ernest Hemingway,
#3. Where we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. That was where we could go.
Ernest Hemingway,
#4. Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation - the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.
Peter De Vries
#5. And what did last? I last, she thought. Yes, i have lasted. But for what?
Ernest Hemingway,
#6. I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry.
Ernest Hemingway,
#7. Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.
Ernest Hemingway,
#11. Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.
Ernest Hemingway,
#12. For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color.
- Ernest Hemingway,
Ernest Hemingway,
#13. Whatever it is that you do in your life, you're your own guide.
Mariel Hemingway
#14. You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes.
Ernest Hemingway,
#15. I guess you are all right. That was bad luck all right. Plenty bad luck.
Ernest Hemingway,
#19. Maybe in any art you have to be wholly you in the context of whatever you're doing.
Mariel Hemingway
#20. As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.
Ernest Hemingway,
#21. Am as clear as the stars that are my brothers. Still I must sleep. They sleep and the moon and the sun sleep and even the ocean sleeps sometimes on certain days when there is no current and a flat calm.
Ernest Hemingway,
#22. I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.
Ernest Hemingway,
#23. I think my biggest learning experience is that it's okay to be who you are - you don't have to exactly fit the mold of what people think a certain kind of career is. I think that discovery - of really knowing who I am and being okay with that and loving myself - was amazing.
Dree Hemingway
#24. Let us not doubt, brother. Let us not pry into the holy mysteries of the hen-coop with simian fingers.
Ernest Hemingway,
#26. Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.
Cyril Connolly
#27. Nobody knows what tribes we came from nor what our tribal inheritance is nor what the mysteries were in the woods where the people lived that we came from. All we know is that we do not know. We know nothing about what happens to us in the nights.
Ernest Hemingway,
#29. It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.
Leslie What
#30. In the night he awoke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken away from him.
Ernest Hemingway,
#31. [Hemingway] always used to bawl me out for including so much topical stuff. He always claimed that was a great mistake, that in fifty years nobody would understand. He may have been right; it's getting to be true.
John Dos Passos
#33. Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
Ernest Hemingway,
#34. I'm the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters.
Donald Trump
#35. You want everything so much and when you get it it's over and you don't give a damn.
Ernest Hemingway,
#36. I know you're right. I'm just low, and when I'm low I talk like a fool.
Ernest Hemingway,
#38. South America hell! If you went there the way you feel now it would be exactly the same. This is a good town.
Ernest Hemingway,
#39. I don't have a favorite author; I have favorite books. 'Moby Dick' is a favorite book, but Melville was a drunk who beat his wife. 'Moveable Feast' by Hemingway, but I would not like him personally. He was a stupid macho person who believed in shooting animals for fun, but that book was incredible!
Gary Paulsen
#40. My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.
Ernest Hemingway,
#41. I really, honest to God, didn't know what to read until I was out of college and living in Boston, and someone said, 'Well, why don't you read Hemingway?' And I thought, 'OK. I guess I'll try this Hemingway fellow.'
Tom Drury
#42. It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea ...
Ernest Hemingway,
#43. He knew everything when he started. The others can't ever learn what he was born with.
Ernest Hemingway,
#45. She was sick and when she was sick she was sick as Southern women are sick.
Ernest Hemingway,
#46. There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
Ernest Hemingway,
#47. Hemingway describes literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other.
John Updike
#48. Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good.
Ernest Hemingway,
#50. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.
Ernest Hemingway,
#52. They had a sound basis of union. Margot was too beautiful for Macomber to divorce her and Macomber had too much money for Margot ever to leave him.
Ernest Hemingway,
#53. I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.
Ernest Hemingway,
#55. You find everything on earth at Harry's."
"Yes, my Colonel. Except, possibly, happiness."
"I'll damn well find happiness, too," the Colonel assured him. "Happiness, as you know, is a movable feast.
Ernest Hemingway,
#56. I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.
Ernest Hemingway,
#58. If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
Ernest Hemingway,
#60. Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?
Ernest Hemingway,
#61. Well, when I was a young writer the people we read were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. And to begin with, I was a bit of a copycat writer and very derivative and tried to write a novel using their voices, really ... I keep it out of print.
Mordecai Richler
#62. The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway,
#63. This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer.
Ernest Hemingway,
#64. Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide ... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.
Ernest Hemingway,
#65. ... Her lips an island in the sudden white sea of pain that came in a shining, unbearable, rising, blinding wave and swept him clean.
Ernest Hemingway,
#67. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO
Tonight, sent by the police, they come to serenade me.He laughed, then tapped his stomach.-I cannot laugh yet. As musicians they are fatal
Ernest Hemingway,
#69. I have a hard time finding something that I really enjoy reading, but I read 'The Great Gatsby' every summer.
Dree Hemingway
#71. It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it
Ernest Hemingway,
#73. 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,
#74. Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.
Ernest Hemingway,
#77. Now, feel. I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. And feel now. Thou hast no heart but mine.
Ernest Hemingway,
#78. How every one he had slept with had only made him miss her more
Ernest Hemingway,
#80. That I am a foreigner is not my fault. I would rather have been born here.
Ernest Hemingway,
#81. Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?
Ernest Hemingway,
#85. Stop that!" Ghost Hemingway ordered. "It's like teaching goddamned cats to walk on their back legs." He sighed. "Standing eggs on end in a dining car." He signed again. "Talking to Scotty Fitzgerald sober.
Dennis Vickers
#86. I always like the bad ones. I know he's a bad one of some sort.
Ernest Hemingway,
#87. It is never hopeless. But sometimes I cannot hope. I try always to hope but sometimes I cannot.
Ernest Hemingway,
#88. For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
Ernest Hemingway,
#89. Ernest Hemingway said it best: "A novel is just like real life, with the boring parts taken out.
Lee Gimenez
#90. The melon of Castile is for self abuse. The melon of Valencia for eating.
Ernest Hemingway,
#91. I'm grateful for every chance I get to do something I love and have a passion for.
Anthony Hemingway
#92. You're going to have things to repent, boy,' Mr. John had told Nick. 'That's one of the best things there is. You can always decide whether to repent them or not. But the thing is to have them.
Ernest Hemingway,
#93. His fight has no panic in it. I wonder if he has any plans or if he is just as desperate as I am? He
Ernest Hemingway,
#94. None of it was important now. The wind blew it out of his head.
Ernest Hemingway,
#95. The old man opened his eyes and for a moment he was coming back from a long way away. Then he smiled.
Ernest Hemingway,
#96. Ernest Hemingway was the author I drew inspiration from.
Nelson DeMille
#97. of Esquire contained an article entitled "On the Blue Water: A Gulf Stream Letter," written by the magazine's
Ernest Hemingway,
#99. Tell me some true things about fighting.'Tell me you love me.'I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places.
Ernest Hemingway,
#100. Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.
A. E. Hotchner
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