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Easy writing makes hard reading.

Easy writing makes hard reading.

Ernest Hemingway
Reading, Writing, Easy
"Paris Was Our Mistress". Book by Samuel Putnam, 1947.

To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors.

Ernest Hemingway
Beautiful, Children, Two
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

Ernest Hemingway
Trying, Firsts, Finance
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.4, Hamilton Books

The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Trying, Way
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

Ernest Hemingway
Funny, Book, Writing
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

Ernest Hemingway
Life Lesson, Bullfighting, Way
The Sun Also Rises ch. 2 (1926)

Write hard and clear about what hurts.

Ernest Hemingway
Hurt, Writing, Chaos

I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It's broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it?

Ernest Hemingway
Love, Believe, Heart
"To Have and Have Not". Book by Ernest Hemingway. Chapter 21, 1937.

As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.

Ernest Hemingway
Strong, Food, Wine
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.425, Simon and Schuster

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

Ernest Hemingway
Next Day, Done, Way
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

Life is pain, so live it up while you can.

Ernest Hemingway
Life, Pain, Live It Up

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

Ernest Hemingway
Thinking, Life Is, Really Living
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.6, Hamilton Books

There is no rule on how to write.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing
Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.

Ernest Hemingway
Country, Cycling, Riding Your Bike
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.343, Simon and Schuster

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

Ernest Hemingway
Cheer, Book, Writing
Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.

Ernest Hemingway
World, Arms, Used
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.151, Hamilton Books

Ronda is the place where to go, if you are planning to travel to Spain for a honeymoon or for being with a girlfriend. The whole city and its surroundings are a romantic set. ... Nice promenades, good wine, excellent food, nothing to do.

Ernest Hemingway
Girlfriend, Nice, Wine

I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way.

Ernest Hemingway
Beautiful, Believe, Feelings
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.3488, Simon and Schuster

Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

Ernest Hemingway
Lakes, Sea, Fishing
Ernest Hemingway (1995). “The old man and the sea”, p.17, Hueber Verlag

For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.

Ernest Hemingway
Baby, Shoes, Worn
"10 works of literature that were really hard to write" by Mark Juddery, www.cnn.com. January 16, 2011.

As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.

Ernest Hemingway
Wise, Long, Juice
Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.11, Melville House

To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.

Ernest Hemingway
Life Lesson, Luck, Hell
"Old Man and the Sea".

A cat has absolute honesty.

Ernest Hemingway
Honesty, Cat, Absolutes

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or his belly and that his gameness is really an extreme of panic in which he runs, leaps, and pulls to get away until he dies. It would seem to be enough advantage to the angler that the fish has the hook in his mouth rather than the angler.

Ernest Hemingway
Running, Battle, Mouths
"Atlantic Game Fishing". Book by S. Kip Farrington Jr., 1937.

You don't have to destroy me. Do you? I'm only a woman who loves you and wants to do what you want to do. I've been destroyed two or three times already. You wouldn't want to destroy me again, would you?

Ernest Hemingway
Love You, Two, Three
Ernest Hemingway, Sean Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on Hunting”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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