Ernest Hemingway Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• There is no friend as loyal as a book.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Friendship, Powerful, Book

  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

• 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

• Easy writing makes hard reading.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Reading, Writing, Easy

  "Paris Was Our Mistress". Book by Samuel Putnam, 1947.

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Reading, Writing, Pleasure

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.120, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Reading, Reading Books

  Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.18, Melville House

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