Ernest Hemingway Quotes about Giving

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Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective

Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Giving, Perspective

Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.

Ernest Hemingway

Giving, Advice, Good Advice

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Dangerous Summer”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Practice, Giving

I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is in rebellion against death, as I am in rebellion against death, he gets pleasure out of taking to himself one of the godlike attributes; that of giving it.

Ernest Hemingway

Animal, Men, Giving

When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

Ernest Hemingway

Power, Giving, Times Of Crisis

Ernest Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

Ernest Hemingway

Giving, Alive, Immortality

Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.129, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate.

Ernest Hemingway

Islands, Practice, Giving

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.4473, Simon and Schuster