Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear, and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses, he will endure or be forgotten. Ernest Hemingway Read Quote
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. Ernest Hemingway Read Quote
After you finish a book, you know, you’re dead. But no one knows you’re dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing. Ernest Hemingway Read Quote
Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it. Ernest Hemingway Read Quote
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. Ernest Hemingway Read Quote
Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat – no matter who killed the meat for him. Ernest Hemingway Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
For Whom the Bell Tolls’ was a problem which I carried on each day. I knew what was going to happen in principle. But I invented what happened each day I wrote. Ernest Hemingway Read Quote