Ernest Hemingway

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

Ernest Hemingway

Creation’s probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Ernest Hemingway

Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.

Ernest Hemingway

Don’t get discouraged because there’s a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.

Ernest Hemingway

Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you’re not taking advantage of it?

Ernest Hemingway

Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.

Ernest Hemingway

Enjoying living was learning to get your money’s worth and knowing when you had it.

Ernest Hemingway

Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.

Ernest Hemingway

Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

Ernest Hemingway