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That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery.

That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery.

Ernest Hemingway
Discovery, Fiesta, Should
"Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition".

I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead.

Ernest Hemingway
Believe, Writing, Two
"Selected Letters, 1917-1961".

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Ernest Hemingway
Death, Country, Sweet
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.

Ernest Hemingway
Development, Cases, Moron
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.23, Hamilton Books

The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.

Ernest Hemingway
Men, Clouds, Wind
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.17, Hamilton Books

The whiskey warmed his tongue and the back of his throat, but it did not change his ideas any, and suddenly, looking at himself in the mirror behind the bar, he knew that drinking was never going to do any good to him now. Whatever he had now he had, and it was from now on, and if he drank himself unconscious when he woke up it would be there.

Ernest Hemingway
Drinking, Mirrors, Ideas
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.8524, Simon and Schuster

When you have a child, the world has a hostage.

Ernest Hemingway
Children, World, Hostage

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Thinking, Doe
Quoted in A. E. Hotchner, Papa Hemingway (1966)

Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).

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

You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

Ernest Hemingway
Notebook, Paris, Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests.

Ernest Hemingway
Two, Spain, Bulls
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.7331, Simon and Schuster

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway
Paris, Grace, Stories

Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.

Ernest Hemingway
Thinking, Want, Too Much

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

Ernest Hemingway
Inspiring, Writing, Judging
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

Ernest Hemingway
New Day, Luck, Old Man
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.7211, Simon and Schuster

It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. 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, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others. A man has only one virginity to lose in fighters, and if it is a lovely plane he loses it to, there his heart will ever be.

Ernest Hemingway
Horse, Heart, Airplane

You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.

Ernest Hemingway
Practice, Luck, Gigs
"Papa, a Personal Memoir". Book by Gregory H. Hemingway, 1976.

Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Story Writers, Details

I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.

Ernest Hemingway
Morning, Safari, Not Happy
"True at First Light: A Fictional Memoir".

When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.

Ernest Hemingway
Spring, Problem, Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Important, Paper
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.837, Simon and Schuster

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Ernest Hemingway
Courage, Imagination, Cowardice
"A Farewell to Arms".

The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.

Ernest Hemingway
Wine, Cycling, Race
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.120, Hamilton Books

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Doe, World

You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood

Ernest Hemingway
People, Stories, Short Story

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