Though he made his keep as a writer , Ernest Hemingway was just as famous for his lust for adventure . Whether he was running with the bull’s eye in Pamplona , fish for marlin in Bimini , throw back rum cocktails in Havana , or hanging out with his six - toe cat in Key West , the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize - gain ground source never did anything halfway . And he used his adventure as fresh fish for the unparalleled collection of novels , short tale , and nonfictional prose books he left behind , The Sun Also mount , A leave-taking to implements of war , Death in the Afternoon , For Whom the Bell Tolls , andThe Old Man and the Seaamong them .
ON THE IMPORTANCE OF LISTENING
" I care to listen . I have learned a great pile from listening carefully . Most people never hear . "
ON TRUST
" The way to make people trust - worthy is to trust them . "
ON TRAVEL
" Never [ go ] on trip with anyone you do not love . "
ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTELLIGENCE AND HAPPINESS
" Happiness in thinking mass is the rare matter I recognize . "
ON TRUTH
" There ’s no one thing that is genuine . They ’re all true . "
ON SUFFERING FOR YOUR ART
" There is nothing to writing . All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed . "
ON TAKING ACTION
" Never confuse move with military action . "
ON GETTING WORDS OUT
" I wake up in the morning time and my mind starts make sentences , and I have to get disembarrass of them fast — talk them or write them down . "
ON THE BENEFITS OF SLEEP
" I love quietus . My liveliness has the tendency to hang apart when I ’m awake , you have it off ? "
ON THE TRUE NATURE OF WICKEDNESS
" All things really wicked start from purity . "
ON WRITING WHAT YOU KNOW
" If a author knows enough about what he is writing about , he may neglect thing that he knows . The dignity of apparent motion of an crisphead lettuce is due to only one ninth of it being above water . "
ON THE PAINFULNESS OF BEING FUNNY
" A man ’s produce to take a bunch of punishment to compose a really rummy book . "
ON KEEPING PROMISES
" Always do serious what you said you ’d do inebriated . That will teach you to keep your lip shut out . "
ON GOOD VS. EVIL
" About ethical motive , I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is base is what you feel bad after . "
ON REACHING FOR THE UNATTAINABLE
" For a honest writer , each book should be a fresh beginning where he taste again for something that is beyond attainment . He should always render for something that has never been done or that others have strain and fail . Then sometimes , with great luck , he will succeed . "
