Ernest Hemingway

Hunger is good discipline.

Ernest Hemingway

I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

Ernest Hemingway

Live it up so you can write it down.

Ernest Hemingway

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

Ernest Hemingway

My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

Ernest Hemingway

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Ernest Hemingway

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

Ernest Hemingway

People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Ernest Hemingway