Ernest Hemingway Quotes about Waiting

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Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

Ernest Hemingway

Thinking, Waiting, Trying

We wait always for something that does not come.

Ernest Hemingway

Waiting, Doe

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Islands in the Stream: A Novel”, p.343, Simon and Schuster

A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Water, Waiting

Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.14, Melville House

I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

Ernest Hemingway

Notebook, Paris, Waiting

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