1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Drinking is a way of ending the day.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.

I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.