Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job.
Weitere Zitate von Ernest Hemingway
Zum Autor"There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games."
"The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself."
"I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one who poverty bothers."
"Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?Y.C.: An unhappy childhood."
"No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful."
"People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars."