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 1 Share Now -
When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write. - Ernest Hemingway 2 Share Now -
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred. - Ernest Hemingway 3 Share Now -
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. - Ernest Hemingway 4 Share Now -
I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances. - Ernest Hemingway 5 Share Now -
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. - Ernest Hemingway 6 Share Now -
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. - Ernest Hemingway 7 Share Now -
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. - Ernest Hemingway 8 Share Now -
I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down. - Ernest Hemingway 9 Share Now -