My whole thing was, as much as I was inspired by what my parents do, and growing up on film sets, watching that made me really want to do that. I am my own person, and I think that the only thing with the Hemingway name is that it has gotten me in the door.


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Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-hab...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-impor...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families al...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine lik...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The first panacea for a misguided nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Re...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned ab...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best --make it all up --but make it up so trul...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards hav...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as imm...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
It was a pleasant caf
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of br...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the fun...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again afte...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
By "guts" I mean, grace under pressure
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency. The second is war. Both brin...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imaginatio...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs.Not my fault.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that dist...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a b...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Develop a built-in bullshit detector.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt l...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first t...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage, and ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enoug...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunat...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Growing up, I didn't really know who the Tuskegee Airmen were.
ANTHONY HEMINGWAY
Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY