Hamingway and Gellhorn (Quotes from movie)

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Martha Gellhorn: Past five minutes, I've watched you. I've watched you type pages and let them float into the wastebasket.

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Ernest Hemingway: Never crumple pages. Always let them float gently into the basket.Any writer who rips out his stuff and crumples it will go insane in a year, guaranteed.

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Ernest Hemingway: Writing's like mass. God gets mad if you don't show up.

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Ernest Hemingway: Hey, no snooping.

Martha Gellhorn: Come on, muses always snoop.

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Ernest Hemingway: In this world, when you find a good place, you don't leave it.

***Martha Gellhorn: We were good in war. And when there was no war, we made our own.

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Ernest Hemingway: Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. As a writer grows in public stature, he sheds his loneliness, and often his work deteriorates, for he does his work alone.

***Ernest Hemingway: Love is more infinitely durable than hate.

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Ernest Hemingway: So what do you do, sophisticated?

Martha Gellhorn: What do I do? Lately, I've been seeing the world.

Ernest Hemingway: How is the world?

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Ernest Hemingway: You know how to make an entrance.

Martha Gellhorn: Why? Jealous?

Ernest Hemingway: All Cinderella had was a pumpkin.

Martha Gellhorn: Cinderella needs a drink.