Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves. Ernest Hemingway More Quotes by Ernest Hemingway More Quotes From Ernest Hemingway Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Ernest Hemingway lonely-life lonely writing Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough. Ernest Hemingway alcohol drinking men In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain. Ernest Hemingway rain spring morning When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous. Ernest Hemingway dangerous Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved. Ernest Hemingway fighting long believe Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it. Ernest Hemingway made want world Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once. Ernest Hemingway coward thousand brave There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you. Ernest Hemingway fisherman great-ones life-lesson Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary. Ernest Hemingway reform growing-up school The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it. Ernest Hemingway time-keeping hard-times writing Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them. Ernest Hemingway life As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand. Ernest Hemingway judging writing inspiring Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. Ernest Hemingway honor death art My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements. Ernest Hemingway games golf attitude My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing. Ernest Hemingway simple writing thinking Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock." Ernest Hemingway marriage regret funny The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing. Ernest Hemingway creativity inspiring children When you have a child, the world has a hostage. Ernest Hemingway hostage children world The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after. Ernest Hemingway done work writing The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. Ernest Hemingway hate inspiring death
