Ernest Hemingway: Trending quotes

Ernest Hemingway trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collection
Ernest Hemingway: 1002 quotes93 likes

“Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

“Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?

Y. C.: An unhappy childhood.”

Ernest Hemingway

Source: Ernest Hemingway on Writing

“He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

“No; that doesn't interest me.'
'That's because you never read a book about it.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

“One cat just leads to another."

[Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943). ]”

Ernest Hemingway

Source: Selected Letters 1917-1961

“We have very primative emotions. It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.”

Ernest Hemingway book Green Hills of Africa

Source: Green Hills of Africa

“I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time…”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast

“You don't have to destroy me. Do you?…”

Ernest Hemingway

The Complete Short Stories

“He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.”

Ernest Hemingway

Source: The Complete Short Stories

“I'd like to destroy you a few times in bed.”

Ernest Hemingway

Source: The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

“Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls

“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”

Ernest Hemingway

“When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast

“By "guts" I mean, grace under pressure”

Ernest Hemingway

Variant: Courage is grace under pressure.

“You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls

“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.”

Ernest Hemingway

A Letter from Cuba (1934)
Context: All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.
Context: All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

“Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.”

Ernest Hemingway

Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (1 July 1925); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
Context: Write me at the Hotel Quintana, Pamplona, Spain. Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something

“The shortest answer is doing the thing.”

Ernest Hemingway