Quotes by Hemingway, Ernest

A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and m >>

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true. >>

You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very acade >>

Quotations about Literature

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive >>

It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of unde >>

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who ha >>

Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed. All politics is a matter of working hard without reward, or with a living wage for a time, in the hope of booty later. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador or have a million copies of his books printed by the Government or any of the other rewards the boys dream about.

Hemingway, Ernest