Ernest Hemingway Quotes about Writing, Life and Love

You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.

When you have been concentrating so hard on something you can't stop and your brain gets to racing like a fly-wheel with the weight gone. You'd better just not think.

Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.

Pray for us sinners, now, and at the hour of our death

You want everything so much and when you get it it's over and you don't give a damn.

Nobody likes to life anchors.

Live life to the fullest.

Every one needs to talk to some one," the woman said. "Before we had religion and other nonsense. Now for every one there should be some one to whom one can speak frankly, for all the valor that one could have one becomes very alone.

We did not think of ourselves as poor. We did not accept it. we thought we were superior people and other people that we looked down on and rightly mistrusted were rich.

When everything you do, you do too long, and do too late, you can't expect to find the people still there. The people all are gone. The party's over and you are with your hostess now.I'm getting as bored with dying as with everything else, he thought.

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

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

The hardest thing in the world to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.