Drinking is a way of ending the day. Ernest Hemingway More Quotes by Ernest Hemingway More Quotes From Ernest Hemingway I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day. Ernest Hemingway next-daydoneway Retirement is the ugliest word in the language. Ernest Hemingway ageworkretirement I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way. Ernest Hemingway feelingsbeautifulbelieve Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for. Ernest Hemingway fishingsealakes Develop a built-in bullshit detector. Ernest Hemingway assbad-assbullshit Would you please please please please please please please stop talking? Ernest Hemingway pleasetalking Any man's life, told truly, is a novel. Ernest Hemingway novelmen Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. Ernest Hemingway motivationalinspirationaldeath 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 is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it. Ernest Hemingway doewritingworld Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. Ernest Hemingway emotionactionwriting The first draft of anything is sh*t. Ernest Hemingway creativityinspiringfirsts There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing! Ernest Hemingway great-writingwriting Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased. Ernest Hemingway vineyardswineappreciation 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, wintery 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 died for no reason. Ernest Hemingway rainspringfall The only thing that can ruin a good day is people. Ernest Hemingway ruinsgood-daypeople To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors. Ernest Hemingway beautifultwochildren Every day above earth is a good day. Ernest Hemingway good-dayearth Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better. Ernest Hemingway story-writersdetailswriting The writer's job is to tell the truth. Ernest Hemingway telling-the-truthjobs There is no rule on how to write. Ernest Hemingway writing
