Ernest Hemingway

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#death

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#writing-process #writing-process

There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#love #inspirational

Religion is the opium of the poor ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#religion

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#humor

I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#friendship

I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#art

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#architecture

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

— Ernest Hemingway

#life

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#death