Quote

My big fish must be somewhere.

Ernest Hemingway

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Fishes
Somewhere
Bigs
Must
Fish

More quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Image
My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
War is not won by victory.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin. The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
Image
The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
Time is the least thing we have.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.
Ernest Hemingway