Ernest Hemingway Quotes About Emotions

Quotes about: Emotions

• Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Thinking, Doe

  Quoted in A. E. Hotchner, Papa Hemingway (1966)

• It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others. A man has only one virginity to lose in fighters, and if it is a lovely plane he loses it to, there his heart will ever be.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Horse, Heart, Airplane

• Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Action, Emotion

• I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Knowing, Trying

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2192, Simon and Schuster

• Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Music, Sarcastic, Clever

  Quoted in A. E. Hotchner, Papa Hemingway (1966)

• It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Night, Emotion

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.19, Hamilton Books

• I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'" "This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. you don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. you lose the taste." Brett's glass was empty.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Drinking, Wine, Glasses

  Ernest Hemingway (1926). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

• We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Impossible, Emotion, Spoil

  "Green Hills of Africa: The Hemingway Library Edition".

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