Quotes about Hemingway

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You're going to have things to repent, boy,' Mr. John had told Nick. 'That's one of the best things there is. You can al — Ernest Hemingway, The Nick Adams Stories
I don't want to fool with it but what choice have I got? They don't give you any choice now. I can let it go — but what will the next thing be? I didn't ask for any of this and if you've got to do it you've got to do it.
Good. Coffee is good for you. It's the caffeine in it. Caffeine, we are here. Caffeine puts a man on her horse and a wom — Ernest Hemingway
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 d — Ernest Hemingway
Redwing had read somewhere that one of his favourite writers, Ernest Hemingway, had been asked what was the best trainin — Gregory Benford, Shipstar
I thought back to Meg’s advice about Hemingway sentences—simple declarative statements that showed the truth and distill — Laura Anderson Kurk, Perfect Glass
Children, Hadley thinks to herself, children are more civilised than this gang on the sauce. — Naomi Wood, Mrs. Hemingway
If you had stars inside your brain cells, you'd probably understand what I am talking about. — Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories
I don't know who made the laws — But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry.
I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket. — Ernest Hemingway
Good writing is true writing. If a man is making a story up it will be true in proportion to the amount of knowledge of — so that when he makes something up it is as it would truly be.
Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary. — Ernest Hemingway, The Nick Adams Stories
She kissed him but he didn't seem to recognize it. — Naomi Wood, Mrs. Hemingway
The hangover: such a cure, she thinks, for overthinking. — Naomi Wood, Mrs. Hemingway
I do not think I have ever seen a nastier-looking man... Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had b — Ernest Hemingway
I want to be a good man, a good writer.""Be one or the other, Ernest, not both. — Naomi Wood, Mrs. Hemingway
No man should be asked to live with so much sadness, and with so little promise of relief. — Naomi Wood, Mrs. Hemingway
Ernest chose to go, she finally thinks, watching the fire turn the papers black. He loved her but he could not live anym — Naomi Wood, Mrs. Hemingway
Martha thanks Sylvia, gesturing with the book. "Just remember not to try to hard with understanding it, " Sylvia says. " — Naomi Wood, Mrs. Hemingway
To show his nervousness was not shameful — only to admit it.