Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
Writer
Oak Park
Illinois
Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemmingway
E. M. Hemmingway
E. Hemmingway
E. Hemingway
Ernest M. Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway
Girl
Hunting
Write
Fishing
Fishes
Someone
Shoulders
Anglers
Back
Letters
Angling
Writing
Somebody
Fisherman
Literature
Shoulder
Looking
Letter
More quotes by Ernest Hemingway
Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.
Ernest Hemingway
The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.
Ernest Hemingway
No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.
Ernest Hemingway
All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.
Ernest Hemingway
Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.
Ernest Hemingway
When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.
Ernest Hemingway
When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.
Ernest Hemingway
Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.
Ernest Hemingway
The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.
Ernest Hemingway
He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.
Ernest Hemingway
Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.
Ernest Hemingway
There are worse places to be than on your own.
Ernest Hemingway
Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.
Ernest Hemingway
If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.
Ernest Hemingway
The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.
Ernest Hemingway
The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.
Ernest Hemingway
It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.
Ernest Hemingway
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Ernest Hemingway
I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.
Ernest Hemingway
Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.
Ernest Hemingway
