“My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.”
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Famous Ernest Hemingway Quotes
“Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.”
Source: Conversations with Ernest Hemingway
Source: Conversations with Ernest Hemingway
“In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.”
Source: Islands in the Stream: A Novel
“A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!”
“Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.”
“The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.”
Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
“A big lie is more plausible than truth.”
Source: Conversations with Ernest Hemingway
“Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.”
Source: By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades
“Fascism is a lie told by bullies.”
Source: Conversations with Ernest Hemingway
“A good life is not measured by any biblical span.”
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls
“Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.”
“Isn't it pretty to think so.”
Source: Green Hills of Africa: The Hemingway Library Edition
Source: Sun Also Rises
Source: A Farewell to Arms