People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.
Weitere Zitate von Ernest Hemingway
Zum Autor"Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job."
"There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games."
"It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I'm not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.' She was crying. I comforted her and she stopped crying. But outside it kept on raining."
"No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful."
"Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?Y.C.: An unhappy childhood."
"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."