1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.

I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.

It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.