Quotes About Hemingway

I liked 'The Sun Also Rises.'

Much like Hemmingway. If something is easy to read, it's hard to write; if something is hard to read, it's easy to write. I want everything I write to be easy to read. I shall want every word to count. If it's described as simplistic, then I shall consider that a compliment.

I'm not gonna lie: I was not a big 'Star Wars' geek.

But this Hemingway stuff is what really has me down. A gag, I said. An old, old gag. Who is this Hemingway person at all? A guy that keeps saying the same thing over and over until you begin to believe it must be good. That must take a hell of a long time, the big man said.

life is earnest, art is gay

I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.

Harry's New York Bar. It's world famous, honey. The first cocktail bar in Paris. Inventor of the Bloody Mary. Hemingway used to hang out there.

Hemingway has his classic moment in The Sun Also Rises when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt. All he can say is, Gradually, then suddenly. That's how depression hits. You wake up one morning, afraid that you're gonna live.

I have spent--or wasted--my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing and bull fighting as the only true sports. The rest, he sniffed, are merely games.

The people who go the craziest when they hear the name 'Hemingway' are my English teachers!

From his fieldstone house near Vicht, furnished with a potbelly stove and a brass bed in the living room, Hemingway rambled about in a sheepskin vest that "made him bulk bigger." Sometimes on request he ghost-wrote love letters for young GIs, reading his favorite passages to fellow journalists. He would memorably describe the Hürtgen as "Passchendaele with tree bursts," but not even a Hemingway could quite capture the debasement of this awful place.

At 11:10 A.M. an annoying growl from those same heavens grew louder. Ernest Hemingway heard it in his Dorchester Hotel suite, where he was making pancakes with buckwheat flour and bourbon; from the window he looked for the telltale "white-hot bunghole" of a jet engine. Pedestrians in Parliament Square heard it and fell flat, covering their heads.

Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

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.

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If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done—so I do it. And it makes me happy when I do it well.

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.

Viva my husband who was Mayor of this town

This book contains material from the remises of my memory and of my heart. Even if the one has been tampered with and the other does not exist.

Woman are a nuisance on Safari.

It was a very Corsican wine and you could dilute it by half with water and still receive its message.

I was just bathing." "Aren't you the fortunate man. Bathing." "Only a shower.