“ I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying… Ernest Hemingway
“ I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you. Ernest Hemingway
“ I don’t know, Robert Jordan said. When I get very tired sometimes I speak English.Or when I get very disgusted. Or baffled, say. When I get highly baffled I just talk English to hear the sound of it.… Ernest Hemingway
“ I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it. Ernest Hemingway
“ I could not fail myself and die on a fish like this, he said. Now that I have him coming so beautifully, God help me endure. I'll say a hundred Our Fathers and a hundred Hail Marys. But I cannot say t… Ernest Hemingway
“ He held her close and hard and inside himself he said goodbye and then goodbye and goodbye. Ernest Hemingway
“ He could see the fish and he had only to look at his hands and feel his back against the stern to know that this had truly happened and was not a dream. Ernest Hemingway
“ For we have been there in the books and out of the books—and where we go, if we are any good, there you can go as we have been. A country, finally, erodes and the dust blows away, the people all die a… Ernest Hemingway
“ For three years I looked forward very childishly to the war ending at Christmas. But now I look forward till when our son will be a lieutenant commander. Ernest Hemingway
“ Fish, he said, I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends. Ernest Hemingway
“ Death is like an old whore in a bar--I'll buy her a drink but I won't go upstairs with her Ernest Hemingway
“ But, thank God, [the fish] are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able. Ernest Hemingway
“ But walking down the stairs feeling each stair carefully and holding to the banister he thought, I must get her away and get her away as soon as I can without hurting her. Because I am not doing too w… Ernest Hemingway
“ But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favours, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them. The moon affects he… Ernest Hemingway
“ Besides, he thought, everything kills everything else in some way. Fishing kills me exactly as it keeps me alive. Ernest Hemingway
“ A writer's style should be direct and personal, his imagery rich and earthy, and his words simple and vigorous. The greatest writers have the gift of brilliant brevity, are hard workers, diligent scho… Ernest Hemingway
“ What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write? Ernest Hemingway
“ People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars. Ernest Hemingway
