Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure? – Ernest Hemingway
Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat — no matter who killed the meat for him. – Ernest Hemingway
There isnt any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know. – Ernest Hemingway
I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of [$h¡t]. I try to put the [$h¡t] in the wastebasket. – Ernest Hemingway