1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves.

He's a great writer. If I didn't think so I wouldn't have tried to kill him... I was the champ and when I read his stuff I knew he had something. So I dropped a heavy glass skylight on his head at a drinking party. But you can't kill the guy. He's not human.

Never mistake motion for action.

All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.

Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer.

My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

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