“ For we have thought the longer thoughtsAnd gone the shorter way.And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray;To serve one master in the night,Another in the day. Ernest Hemingway
“ His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention out of his experience should produce a truer account than anything factual can be. Ernest Hemingway
“ That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. Ernest Hemingway
“ What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. Ernest Hemingway
“ I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it. Ernest Hemingway
“ 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
“ You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know Ernest Hemingway
“ You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would a… Ernest Hemingway
“ When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. If a writer can make people live there may be no great characters in his book, but it is… Ernest Hemingway
“ Vaguely he wanted a girl but he did not want to have to work to get her. He would have liked to have a girl but he did not want to have to spend a long time getting her. He did not want to get into th… Ernest Hemingway
“ 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. Ernest Hemingway