Ernest Hemingway

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. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#critics #god #i #like #never

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#baroque #decoration #interior #over #prose

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#almost #always #cowardice #functioning #imagination

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#bad #feel #feel good #good #i

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#down #explodes #flame #go #i

All our words from loose using have lost their edge. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#loose #lost #our #their #using

I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#common #good #had #happened #one thing

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#funny #got #lot #man #punishment

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#bad #fishing #girl #just #letter