Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective Ernest Hemingway More Quotes by Ernest Hemingway More Quotes From Ernest Hemingway If a writer stops observing, he is finished. Ernest Hemingway observationfinishedifs I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done. Ernest Hemingway naturemoonfather The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it. Ernest Hemingway finishing-itwritinginspiring You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got. Ernest Hemingway farewell-to-arms You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil. Ernest Hemingway moveable-feastparisnotebook When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. Ernest Hemingway powerfulwritingcharacter 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. Ernest Hemingway afternoonabuselittles When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. Ernest Hemingway leadershipwiseinspirational All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is. Ernest Hemingway fatewritingneeds The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves. Ernest Hemingway cyclingwinerace Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare. Ernest Hemingway uglyfeelsbeautiful I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends. Ernest Hemingway bedroomrottenhabit As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary. Ernest Hemingway heroagetime It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others. A man has only one virginity to lose in fighters, and if it is a lovely plane he loses it to, there his heart will ever be. Ernest Hemingway horseairplaneheart Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. Ernest Hemingway farewell-to-armsdarling Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good. Ernest Hemingway enjoyknows Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready. Ernest Hemingway old-manlucknew-day That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery. Ernest Hemingway fiestashoulddiscovery As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come. Ernest Hemingway juicewiselong All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. Ernest Hemingway usaliteraturebook
