Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

I didn’t want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you goodnight. And there’s a lot of difference.

We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

"Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"
"Yes. I want to ruin you."
"Good," I said. "That's what I want too."

Ernest Hemingway: Good pictures, what camera do you use?
Irving Penn: What typewriter do you use?

As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

The first draft of anything is shit.

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in shock-proof shit-detector.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

Write drunk; edit sober.

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

Never mistake motion for action.

The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you’re rewriting a novel you will never be stuck.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

All thinking men are atheists.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.