1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

I drink to make other people more interesting.

You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.

Before you quit, you have to try

Worry destroys the ability to write.

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

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.

They arrested us after breakfast.