100 phrases of Ernest Hemingway about life and literature

Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899 - 1961) He was a renowned American writer and journalist. He won the Pulitzer Award in 1953 for The old man and the sea and the following year the Nobel Prize for Literature for his complete work. It is considered one of the great American novelists of the twentieth century. Published seven novels, six collections of short stories and two non -fiction works. Three of his novels, four collections of stories and three non -fiction works were posted posthly. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature. Some of his best works are: The Sun Also Rises, Goodbye to weapons and For whom the Bell Tolls.

His austere and discreet style, which he called the Iceberg theory, He had a strong influence on the fiction account of the twentieth century, while his adventurous life and his public image attracted the admiration of later generations.

Due to its deteriorated state of health consequence of various accidents in its constant adventurous life and a depression suffered in its last years, Hemingway He committed suicide at 61 In his home in ketchum (Idaho).

Ernest Hemingway famous quotes

Now it's not the time to think about what you don't have. Think about what you can do with what you have.

The man has a heart, my lord, even if he does not follow his dictates.

The rain will stop, the night will end, the pain will fade. Hope is never so lost that it cannot be found.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Happiness in intelligent people is the strangest thing I know.

There is nothing to write. All you do is sit in front of a typewriter and bleed.

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Always sober what you said you were going to do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth closed.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. The true nobility lies in being superior to your ancient being.

The life of each man ends in the same way. Only the details of how he lived and how he died distinguish a man from another.

You never confuse the movement with the action.

All good books have in common that they are better than if they had really happened.

You can't get away from you moving from one place to another.

Remember that everything is fine until it is wrong. You will know when it's wrong.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, can hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

The paperwork is the first furniture in the study of a writer.

As a writer, you should not judge, you must understand.

I'm no longer brave, honey. I'm all broken. They have broken me.

I love to sleep. My life has the tendency to collapse when I'm awake, you know?

The best way to know if you can trust someone is to trust him.

The cowards die thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

We are stronger in the places where we have broken.

You are not an idiot. You are only a case of detained development.

Life is not difficult to handle when you have nothing to lose.

The value is grace under pressure.

Never think that war, regardless of how necessary or justified it is not a crime.

The most painful thing is to get lost in the process of loving someone too much and forgetting that it is also special.

The first draft of anything is shit.

All you have to do is write a true prayer. Write the most true prayer you know.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

When people speak, listen completely. Most people never listen.

There is not one thing that is true. Everything is true.

I can't bear to think that my life goes so fast and that I am not living it.

My goal is to leave what I see and what I feel of the best and simplest way.

Here is a soldier in full war. It is brave because he believes that nothing has to happen to him, that he is not like the others, that he has a special virtue and a half uncertainty that they should not touch him.

Never go on a trip with someone you don't love.

I always try to write about the iceberg principle. There are seven eighths under water for each part that shows.

Write strong and clear about what hurts.

You are so brave and calm that I forget that you are suffering.

To write about life, you must first live it.

Artists are never authentic refugees, because when fleeing they always get the best of their assets: themselves.

If two people love each other, there can be no happy ending.

It is terribly easy to be strong especially during the day, but at night is something else.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and appropriate to die for the country of one. But in the modern war, there is nothing sweet or appropriate in your death. You will die like a dog without a good reason.

Hunger is a good discipline.

Worry a little every day and you will lose two years of life. If something is wrong, create it if you can. But prepare to not worry: worry never fixes anything.

Let him think that he is more man than me and so he will be.

No animal has more freedom than the cat, but buries the disaster it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

MUESTRALS TO THE READERS Everything, don't tell them anything.

No one should be alone in their old age.

The first and the last thing you have to do in this world is to last and not be crushed by him.

Distrust of all free and simple people, especially when their stories are complicated.

You never feel at the table when you can stop at the bar.

Good writing is a good conversation, only there are more.

It is not a matter of them that you have to learn to write. Let them think that you were born that way.

I have seen the words as if I were seeing them for the first time.

Live the full life of the mind, exultant of new ideas, intoxicated by the romance of the unusual.

An intelligent man sometimes is forced to drink to spend time with fools.

Until now, about morals, I only know that what is moral is what makes you feel good after and what is immoral is what makes you feel bad after.

Everyone behaves badly, if they give them the opportunity.

I didn't want to say goodbye, that was the problem, I wanted to kiss you good night, and there is a lot of difference.

The world is a good place for which it is worth fighting and I hate a lot to leave it.

Before reacting, think. Before spending, win. Before criticizing, wait. Before leaving, try it.

My heart is broken, he thought. If I feel that way, my heart must be broken.

We are all apprentices in a trade in which nobody becomes a teacher.

The real reason not to commit suicide is because you always know how life returns after hell ends.

When you love, you want to do things for. You want to sacrifice for. You want to serve ..

The difficult thing to write a novel is to finish it.

If the others listen to me speaking aloud, they would think that I am crazy. But since I'm not, I don't care.

We would be together and we would have our books, and at night we would be hot in bed along with open windows and bright stars.

All truly perverse things begin from innocence.

No, that's the great fallacy: the wisdom of the old. They don't grow wise. They become careful.

When you start living out of yourself, everything is dangerous.

Why do the old wake up so early? Is it for a longer day?

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built -in shit detector, blow -proof.

All thinking men are atheists.

It is very good to write simply and the simpler, the better. But don't start thinking so convictedly simple. Learn how complicated it is something and then simply explain it.

Why are we born if not to help each other?

Why, love, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

I'm always in love.

If a writer stops observing, he has finished. Experience communicates with small details closely observed.

When writing a novel, a writer must create living people; people, no characters. A character is a cartoon.

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all angry at something and you have to be injured as hell before you can write seriously. When they hurt you, use it.

I like to listen. I learned a lot listening carefully. Most people never listen.

It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun, the moon or the stars. It is enough to live in the sea and kill our true brothers.

We are all broken, this is how the light comes in.

They say that the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes about the seeds, they are covered with a better soil and with a higher degree of manure.

As ages it is more difficult to have heroes, but it is something as necessary.

I write a masterpiece page in ninety -one pages of shit. I try to put the shit on the paper.

I'm with you. No matter what else you have in the head, I'm with you and I love you.

A writer must write what he has to say and not speak it.

Death is like an old whore in a bar; I will buy a drink, but I will not go up with her.

Luck is something that comes in many forms and who can recognize it?

When you stop doing things for fun, you can be dead.

There is not always an explanation for everything.

The life of any man, really told, is a novel ..

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easy and perfectly; Sometimes it's like drilling rocks and then sweeping everything with bombs.

Writing is a heavy thing and since the author wants the reader to understand him, he does not save words to convince him. I would very much like being able to read something written by the reader. And I hope he will be with me as indulgent as I would be with him.

It may not be as strong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have a lot of resolution.

I loved you when I saw you today and I always loved you, but I had never seen you before.

I'm not unfaithful, honey. I have many failures, but I'm very faithful. You will be fed up with me, because I will be very faithful.

Keep lying to me. That's what I want you to do.