Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
American Novelist
Born: Jul 21, 1899
Died: Jul 2, 1961
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It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. Ernest Hemingway
You Business Think Way Born Write Learn None How Were Them
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. Ernest Hemingway
Love Alone Time Best You People Writing Will Enough About Rather Ruthless Write Leave Time People Any Certainly Interrupt
Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear, and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses, he will endure or be forgotten. Ernest Hemingway
Man Sometimes Will Degree Immediately Possesses Writes He Clear Quite May Forgotten Endure Fortunate Eventually Things Alchemy
I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances. Ernest Hemingway
Day You Grateful Finished Else Type Types Correct See Someone Clean Point Over Over It Another Always Go Up Get Stopped Rewrite Where Different Naturally Each Each Day Last Chance Chances
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. Ernest Hemingway
Cowardice Imagination Ability Simply Almost Always Suspend Lack
When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write. Ernest Hemingway
Work Morning You Book Light First Every Cold Possible Disturb Write No-One Soon Come Am After Story Warm Working Your Cool
On the 'Star,' you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time. Ernest Hemingway
Work Time You Simple Will Young Out Could Write Writer He Forced Him Learn Were Gets Anyone Newspaper Sentence Useful Help Star Harm
All our words from loose using have lost their edge. Ernest Hemingway
Words Edge Lost Our Loose Using
To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years. Ernest Hemingway
You Father First Rule Kid Absolute Look Years Successful Two
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
Time You Half Doubt About Never He Wrong Half The Time Were Any Right
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred. Ernest Hemingway
Hope Book Writing Will Consider Out Tried More Could Sacred Simply Come Perhaps Reduce Reduced Afraid Much Next Less Profane Profanity
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. Ernest Hemingway
War Cause Three Motive Conditions Authority Just Public Right Necessary
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. Ernest Hemingway
Death Art Honor Degree Fighter Danger Only Performance Left Artist Which Brilliance
After you finish a book, you know, you're dead. But no one knows you're dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing. Ernest Hemingway
You Book Writing Responsibility See Finish No-One Know Dead Terrible Knows Irresponsibility After
Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him. Ernest Hemingway
Matter Live Grass Once Has-Been About Had He Him Known Learned Been Personal Who Meat
'For Whom the Bell Tolls' was a problem which I carried on each day. I knew what was going to happen in principle. But I invented what happened each day I wrote. Ernest Hemingway
Day Problem Carried Invented Knew Wrote Principle Going Happen Happened Which Each Each Day Whom Bell
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