1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Hombre, there are bodegas open all night long.

Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.

You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.

we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.