Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

A bottle of wine was good company.

Every day above earth is a good day.

By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.

Hunger is good discipline.

Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

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

Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.

He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.

This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.

There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves.