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Hunger is good discipline.

Hunger is good discipline.

Ernest Hemingway
Discipline, Hunger, Good Discipline

The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.

Ernest Hemingway
Work, Writing, Done
Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. de Maupassant. I've fought two draws with Mr. Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody's going to get me in any ring with Mr. Tolstoy unless I'm crazy or I keep getting better.

Ernest Hemingway
Crazy, Thinking, Two
Quoted in New Yorker, 13 May 1950

In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.

Ernest Hemingway
Running, Beach, Morning
Ernest Hemingway (2002). “The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway”, p.309, Simon and Schuster

Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

Ernest Hemingway
Farewell To Arms, Darling
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

A bottle of wine was good company.

Ernest Hemingway
Wine, Bottles, Good Company
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.119, Hamilton Books

You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane.

Ernest Hemingway
Horse, Airplane, Lovely
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.335, Simon and Schuster

Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Age, Difficulty

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Trying, Wonderful
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Done, Letters
Ernest Hemingway (1981). “Selected Letters, 1917-1961”

If a writer stops observing, he is finished.

Ernest Hemingway
Observation, Finished, Ifs
Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.27, Melville House

Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.

Ernest Hemingway
Carpe Diem, Prophet, Carpe
Ernest Hemingway (2002). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.

Ernest Hemingway
Farewell To Arms
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.68, Hamilton Books

Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.

Ernest Hemingway
Movement, Want, Action

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

Ernest Hemingway
Pain, Writing, Epic
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.352, Simon and Schuster

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

Ernest Hemingway
Bad Ass, Men, Hunting
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.

Ernest Hemingway
Appreciation, Wine, Civilization
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2197, Simon and Schuster

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

Ernest Hemingway
Love, Happiness, Romantic
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.446, Simon and Schuster

Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.

Ernest Hemingway
World, Want, Made
Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.

Ernest Hemingway
Beautiful, Hunting, Sea
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.7, Hamilton Books

There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.

Ernest Hemingway
Home, Two, Paris

Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.

Ernest Hemingway
Knowing, Enjoy, Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.75, Hamilton Books

When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to you. After being severely wounded two weeks before my nineteenth birthday I had a bad time until I figured out that nothing could happen to me that had not happened to all men before me. Whatever I had to do men had always done. If they had done it then I could do it too and the best thing was not to worry about it.

Ernest Hemingway
War, Boys, Men
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.3863, Simon and Schuster

He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.

Ernest Hemingway
Thinking, Sitting, Sail
Ernest Hemingway, Nick Lyons, Jack Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on Fishing”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, People, Enough
Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.114, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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