Ernest Hemingway Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

Ernest Hemingway quotes and sayings page 7 (deceased novelist born on Jul 21, 1899). Here's quote # 61 through 70 out of the 85 we have for him.

“Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.”

“You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.”

“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.”

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”

“The shortest answer is doing the thing.”

“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”

“Never confuse movement with action.”

“For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.”

“If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.”

“Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.”