Tag: Ernest Hemingway
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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
Ernest Hemingway
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You’re beautiful, like a May fly.
Ernest Hemingway
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Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
Ernest Hemingway
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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.
Ernest Hemingway
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A writer of fiction is really… a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.
Ernest Hemingway
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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway
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I rewrote the ending to ‘Farewell to Arms,’ the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.
Ernest Hemingway
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Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Ernest Hemingway
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There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Ernest Hemingway
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On the ‘Star,’ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.
Ernest Hemingway