If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work. Ernest Hemingway More Quotes by Ernest Hemingway More Quotes From Ernest Hemingway In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable. Ernest Hemingway morning beautiful lying A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. Ernest Hemingway cat emotional honesty I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Ernest Hemingway old-man stars trying Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. Ernest Hemingway mind writing travel All thinking men are atheists. Ernest Hemingway atheist inspirational death After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love. Ernest Hemingway sad-and-happy stories writing Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. Ernest Hemingway stories writing death 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. Ernest Hemingway fathers-day dad funny There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span. Ernest Hemingway biblical life two I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood. Ernest Hemingway hiking journey thinking My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world. Ernest Hemingway arms used world My big fish must be somewhere. Ernest Hemingway big-fish old-man bigs There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story. Ernest Hemingway stories doe water You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. Ernest Hemingway enough writing people All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens. Ernest Hemingway political luck writing A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek. Ernest Hemingway cutting girl rain I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead. Ernest Hemingway writing two believe I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word. Ernest Hemingway useless sorry love-you Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more. Ernest Hemingway simple home death I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about. Ernest Hemingway care found wanted
