The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
Weitere Zitate von Ernest Hemingway
Zum Autor"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."
"If my Valentine you won't be,I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree."
"If you had stars inside your brain cells, you'd probably understand what I am talking about."
"Don't you believe I love you? Don't know how I can make you believe. I didn't want to kiss you goodbye--that was the trouble--I wanted to kiss you goodnight. […] Of course I love you. I love you all the time. […] I'd like to hold you and kiss you so that you wouldn't doubt whether I wanted to or not."
"There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games."
"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."