Ernest Hemingway Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Thinking, Waiting, Trying

• 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

• I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Notebook, Paris, Waiting

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

• I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Waiting, Saws, Cliffs

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Across the River and Into the Trees”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

• We wait always for something that does not come.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Waiting, Doe

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Islands in the Stream: A Novel”, p.343, Simon and Schuster

• A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Water, Waiting

  Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.14, Melville House

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