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Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring Picture Quote #1

You see I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village Picture Quote #1

But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start Picture Quote #1

Everything became quite unreal finally and it seemed as though nothing could have any consequences Picture Quote #1

You see, I am 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 Picture Quote #1

One battle doesn’t make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war Picture Quote #1

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed Picture Quote #1

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It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them Picture Quote #1

There’s a great book about that, The Breaking Point by Stephen Koch . It won’t improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway Picture Quote #1

You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man’s work. The only thing is that you need it. Hold it tight Picture Quote #1

If my Valentine you won’t be,I’ll hang myself on your Christmas tree Picture Quote #1

It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped over a stick Picture Quote #1

There’s this whole post-modern, nuevo beatnik, retro-bohemian thing going on, you know what I mean? You walk into some coffee shops, and it feels like you’re an ex-patriot in Paris in the 20s. You’re like, ‘Hey, isn’t that a young Ernest Hemingway over there? Yeah, I think it is! Hey, let’s go have a look and see what he’s writing... It’s a Gap application.’ Picture Quote #1

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When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write Picture Quote #1

Let us sleep, he said and he felt the long light body, warm against him, comforting against him, abolishing loneliness against him, magically, by a simple touching of flanks, of shoulders and of feet, making an alliance against death with him Picture Quote #1

Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don’t feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper Picture Quote #1

The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans Picture Quote #1

Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer Picture Quote #1

Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph Picture Quote #1

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The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education Picture Quote #1

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end Picture Quote #1

The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can’t be found Picture Quote #1

I’ve never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there Picture Quote #1

I wasn’t looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention Picture Quote #1

The publishing industry stopped having new ideas out of respect for the untimely death of Ernest Hemingway in 1961 and has been doing everything the same way ever since Picture Quote #1

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Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative (Ernest Hemingway Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring (Ernest Hemingway Quotes) You see I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive. (Ernest Hemingway Quotes) 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 Quotes) The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village. (Ernest Hemingway Quotes) But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start. (Ernest Hemingway Quotes) Everything became quite unreal finally and it seemed as though nothing could have any consequences (Ernest Hemingway Quotes) You see, I am 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. (Ernest Hemingway Quotes) One battle doesn’t make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war (Ernest Hemingway Quotes) For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed. (Ernest Hemingway Quotes) It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. (Ernest Hemingway Quotes) There’s a great book about that, The Breaking Point by Stephen Koch . It won’t improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway. (Ernest Hemingway Quotes) You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man’s work. The only thing is that you need it. Hold it tight. (Ernest Hemingway Quotes) If my Valentine you won’t be,I’ll hang myself on your Christmas tree (Ernest Hemingway Quotes) It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped over a stick. (Ernest Hemingway Quotes) There’s this whole post-modern, nuevo beatnik, retro-bohemian thing going on, you know what I mean? You walk into some coffee shops, and it feels like you’re an ex-patriot in Paris in the 20s. You’re like, ‘Hey, isn’t that a young Ernest Hemingway over there? Yeah, I think it is! Hey, let’s go have a look and see what he’s writing... It’s a Gap application.’ (Ernest Hemingway Quotes) When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write. (Ernest Hemingway Quotes) Let us sleep, he said and he felt the long light body, warm against him, comforting against him, abolishing loneliness against him, magically, by a simple touching of flanks, of shoulders and of feet, making an alliance against death with him. (Ernest Hemingway Quotes) Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don’t feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper. (Ernest Hemingway Quotes) The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans (Ernest Hemingway Quotes) Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. (Ernest Hemingway Quotes) Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph (Ernest Hemingway Quotes) The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education. (Ernest Hemingway Quotes) It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end (Ernest Hemingway Quotes) The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can’t be found. (Ernest Hemingway Quotes) I’ve never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there. (Ernest Hemingway Quotes) I wasn’t looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention. (Ernest Hemingway Quotes) The publishing industry stopped having new ideas out of respect for the untimely death of Ernest Hemingway in 1961 and has been doing everything the same way ever since. (Ernest Hemingway Quotes)

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