Ernest Hemingway Quotes

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a type writer and bleed."

"The first draft of anything is shit."

"All things truly wicked start from an innocence."

"His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred."

"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places."

"There is no lonelier man in death...than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it."

"There's no one thing that is true. They're all true."

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

"You make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality."

"It is always how to write truly and having found out what is true to project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of the person who reads it."

"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy."

"You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason."

"All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time."