Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.

My' she said. 'We're lucky that you found that place.' 'We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.

Write the best story you can and throw out all the good lines.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Ir jis mat? aukso rusvumo veid?, ir rusvai pilkas akis, ir šypsan?ias sodrias l?pas, ir saul?s išblukintus trumpus plaukus, ir ji pak?l? veid?, ir nusišypsojo jam ? akis. Tai tikrai buvo tiesa.

In principle, I would have brought you a bottle of brand.' 'In principle,' Para said and smiled, for the first time, showing yellowed teeth. 'Such a beautiful expression. Would you like some Grappa?

I tried to tell about the night and the difference between the night and the day and how the night was better unless the day was very clean and cold and I could not tell it; as I cannot tell it now. But if you have had it you know.

And we're going to have all the books in the world to read and when we go on trips we can take them.

Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure that you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.

You ought to write a book on wines, count, I said. Mr. Barnes, answered the count, All I want out of wine is to enjoy them.

Only the impossible is ever worth doing at all.

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.

Ar tu žinai, k? reiškia moteriai b?ti negražiai? Ar žinai, k? reiškia vis? gyvenim? b?ti bjauriai, o jaustis gražiai?

Te oczy pod czarnym kapeluszem, kiedy je pierwszy raz zobaczyÅ'em, byÅ'y oczami zawiedzionego gwaÅ'ciciela. MiaÅ' twarz, która przypominaÅ'a mi ?abÄ™ - nie ropuchÄ™, ale takÄ… zwykÅ'Ä… ?abÄ™,dla której Pary? byÅ' za wielkÄ… kaÅ'u??. Wszystkie pokolenia sÄ… na wskutek czegoÅ› stracone i zawsze byÅ'y, i zawsze bÄ™dÄ….

Goodnight my kitten.

I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.

Everyone is broken by life, but some people are stronger in the broken places.

His father, who ran his life more disastrously than any man that he had ever know, gave marvelous advice. He distilled it out of the bitter mash of all his previous mistakes with the freshening additions of the new mistakes he was about to make and he gave it with an accuracy and precision that carried the authority of a man who had heard all the more grisly provisions of his sentence and gave it no more importance than he had given to the fine print on a transatlantic steamship ticket.

Only dead fish swim with the current.

I hate him, too," she shivered. "I hate his damned suffering.

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch." "Yes." "It's sort of what we have instead of God.

Een ijsje is niet een ijsje zonder discodip

Nu e mare lucru s? scrii. Nu faci decât s? stai jos în faÈ›a unei maÈ™ini de scris È™i s? sângerezi.