1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

You won’t do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?

Creation’s probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

Oh, darling, I’ve been so miserable.

The most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen.

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.

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.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.