1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Write the truest sentence you know.

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and, having found what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. Fr letter to Maxwell Perkins 1945

Do you want to keep your knee, young man?''No', I said.'What?''I want it cut off,' I said, 'so I can wear a hook on it.

By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

Death is like an old whore in a bar--I'll buy her a drink but I won't go upstairs with her

I am not sure Scott had ever drunk wine from a bottle before and it was exciting to him as though he were slumming or as a girl might be excited by going swimming for the first time without a bathing suit.

Gradually, then suddenly.