Quote

It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.

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
Started
Friendly
Pencils
Racks
Water
Pleasant
Coats
Bench
Write
Coffee
Pocket
Waiter
Felt
Proof
Dry
Benches
Writing
Warm
Hung
Pencil
Weathered
Brought
Worn
Coat
Cafe
Clean
Hats
Ordered
Rack
Took
Pockets
Notebook
Cafes

More quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Image
When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
Write hard and clear about what hurts.
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
All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things
Ernest Hemingway
Image
Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
The shortest answer is doing the thing.
Ernest Hemingway