Ernest Hemingway Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Birthday, Risk, Age

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

• Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

  "What Hemingway Would Think of the Internet", July 2, 2011.

• There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Rocks, Literature

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

• That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Depression, Depressing, Artist

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

• All things truly wicked start from innocence.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Wicked, Literature

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

• 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

• I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Military, War, Men

• The shortest answer is doing the thing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Answers, Literature

• I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Literature, Subjects

• Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Literature, Architecture, Baroque Music

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

• 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)

• All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Our Words, Afternoon

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2231, Simon and Schuster

• Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Death, Writing, Stories

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2261, Simon and Schuster

• Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Girl, Writing, Hunting

  Ernest Hemingway, Nick Lyons, Jack Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on Fishing”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

• There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Tolls, Literature

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.505, Simon and Schuster

• How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Past, Simple

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

• The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Wall, Writing, Editors

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

• I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Horse, Fall, Literature

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.97, Hamilton Books

• When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Flames, Ideas, Funny Sarcastic

  "Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company". Book by James R. Mellow, 1974.

• Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Men, Literature

• Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Crazy, Literature, Pounds

  "The New York Post" Newspaper, January 24, 1957.

• Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Time, Doubt, Half

  Ernest Hemingway (1944). “Hemingway”

• God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Attitude, Sick, People

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

• There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.

  Ernest Hemingway

  America, And Love, Literature

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