{"quotes":[{"text":"Martha thanks Sylvia, gesturing with the book. 'Just remember not to try to hard with understanding it, ' Sylvia says. 'Like people, they're best not to be too thoroughly understood.","author":"Naomi Wood","tags":["ernest-hemingway","historical-fiction"],"id":28791,"author_id":"Naomi+Wood"},{"text":"Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.","author":"Ernest Hemingway","tags":["ernest-hemingway","hard-work","hemingway","luck","preparation","the-old-man-and-the-sea"],"id":45669,"author_id":"Ernest+Hemingway"},{"text":"We only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it anymore.","author":"Ernest Hemingway","tags":["ernest-hemingway","in-another-country","war"],"id":89678,"author_id":"Ernest+Hemingway"},{"text":"Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond.","author":"Ernest Hemingway","tags":["death","dying","ernest-hemingway","for-whom-the-bell-tolls","life","living"],"id":94019,"author_id":"Ernest+Hemingway"},{"text":"I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.","author":"Tiffany Madison","tags":["ernest-hemingway","writing","writing-craft","writing-philosophy","writing-process"],"id":98992,"author_id":"Tiffany+Madison"},{"text":"If I walked down by different streets to the Jardin du Luxembourg in the afternoon I could walk through the gardens and then go to the Musée du Luxembourg where the great paintings were that have now mostly been transferred to the Louvre and the Jeu de Paume. I went there nearly every day for the Cézannes and to see the Manets and the Monets and the other Impressionists that I had first come to know about in the Art Institute at Chicago. I was learning something from the painting of Cézanne that made writing simple true sentences far from enough to make the stories have the dimensions that I was trying to put in them. I was learning very much from him but I was not articulate enough to explain it to anyone. Besides it was a secret. But if the light was gone in the Luxembourg I would walk up through the gardens and stop in at the studio apartment where Gertrude Stein lived at 27 rue de Fleurus.","author":"Ernest Hemingway","tags":["cezanne","ernest-hemingway","france","museums","paris"],"id":155257,"author_id":"Ernest+Hemingway"},{"text":"Redwing had read somewhere that one of his favourite writers, Ernest Hemingway, had been asked what was the best training for a novelist. He had said “an unhappy childhood.” Redwing had enjoyed a fine time growing up, but he wondered if this whole expedition was unfolding more like a novel, and would be blamed on one person, one character, the guy in charge: him. Maybe you got a happy childhood and then an unhappy adulthood, and that’s how novels worked.","author":"Gregory Benford","tags":["childhood","ernest-hemingway","novel","unhappy"],"id":160031,"author_id":"Gregory+Benford"},{"text":"I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.","author":"Martha Gellhorn","tags":["ernest-hemingway","feminism","hate","love","marriage","married-life","matrimony","men","mothers","psychology","relationships","sons","women"],"id":161840,"author_id":"Martha+Gellhorn"},{"text":"I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing.","author":"Ernest Hemingway","tags":["ernest-hemingway","for-whom-the-bell-tolls","soldiers","war"],"id":193333,"author_id":"Ernest+Hemingway"},{"text":"You're going to have things to repent, boy,' Mr. John had told Nick. 'That's one of the best things there is. You can always decide whether to repent them or not. But the thing is to have them.","author":"Ernest Hemingway","tags":["ernest-hemingway","nick-adams","repent","sin"],"id":208406,"author_id":"Ernest+Hemingway"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}