Selected Letters 1917-1961 Quotes

“Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. 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, Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961

“One cat just leads to another."

[Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]”
― Ernest Hemingway, Selected Letters 1917-1961

“Fuck literature.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961

“I am asking Scribners to insert as a subtitle in everything after the eighth printing
THE SUN ALSO RISES (LIKE YOUR COCK IF YOU HAVE ONE)
A greater Gatsby
(Written with the friendship of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Prophet of THE JAZZ AGE)”
― Ernest Hemingway, Selected Letters 1917-1961

“Writing. It is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Selected Letters 1917-1961