Ernest Hemingway Quotes

There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make.

Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

The first draft of anything is shit.

You'll lose it, if you talk about it

Grace under pressure.

The road to hell is paved with unbought stuffed animals

And you'll always love me won't you?
Yes
And the rain won't make any difference?
No

That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch.

And that was the end of the beginning of that

And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought.

"Are you a communist?"
"No I am an anti-fascist"
"For a long time?"
"Since I have understood fascism."

Write hard and clear about what hurts.

Luis Miguel had the pride of the devil and a feeling of absolute superiority that was justified in many things. He had said so long that he was the best that he really believed it. He had to believe it to go on. It was not just something he believed. It was his belief.

Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.