Ernest Hemingway Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Romantic, Stars

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.31, Simon and Schuster
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  An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Drinking, Beer

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

• All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Farewell To Arms, Common

  "Papa Hemingway". Book by A. E. Hotchner. Part 2, Chapter 7, 1966.

• There is no friend as loyal as a book.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Friendship, Powerful, Book

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

• A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Book, Writing

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

• All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Truth, Book, Reading

  Esquire, Dec. 1934

• All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Reading, Writing

• Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Writing, Weather

• All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Usa, Literature

  Green Hills of Africa ch. 1 (1935)

• If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Reading, Boys

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

• It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Children, Book, Men

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

• 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 disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. . . .When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have e made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Hurt, Morning, Book

• No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Reading, Book, Writing

  "The Figure a Poem Makes". Book by Ernest Hemingway, 1939.

• For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, New Beginnings, Trying

  Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Green Hills of Africa: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

• I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Writing, Sacred

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

• No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things

  Ernest Hemingway

  Real, Book, Mean

• I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Cheer, Book, Writing

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Book, Writing

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.785, Simon and Schuster

• In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Reading, People

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.117, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Having books published is very destructive to writing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Writing, Destructive

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.785, Simon and Schuster

• If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Light, Fiction

  Ernest Hemingway (1996). “A Moveable Feast”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

• No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Interest

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.6, Hamilton Books

• When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it was like a sickness and be of any help I could to him and try to be a good friend. He had many good, good friends, more than anyone I knew. But I enlisted as one more, whether I could be of any use to him or not. If he could write a book as fine as The Great Gatsby I was sure that he could write an even better one. I did not know Zelda yet, and so I did not know the terrible odds that were against him. But we were to find them out soon enough.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Writing, Good Friend

• In those days, there was no money to buy books.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, No Money

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

• 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 disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Morning, Work, Book

  "Daily routines of Nikola Tesla, Mozart, Hemingway, Woody Allen, Maya Angelou, van Gogh, Stephen King, and Nabokov" by Thomas Oppong, www.cnbc.com. February 7, 2017.

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