When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

More Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

You're beautiful, like a May fly.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Never mistake motion for action.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.