Ernest Hemingway Quotes

The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!

Not even the most devastating truth can be told; it must be evoked.

Some studies suggest that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by the end of the century.

The bearded iceberg

Everything happening at the South Pole, like the North Pole, has repercussions everywhere on the planet.

You don't want to hit readers over the head like they're completely incapable of picking up on subtlety.

We have no choice: we must protect Arctic ice, enable it to continue to act as an essential temperature regulator for the planet, avoid the catastrophic rise in sea levels that would result from the ice melt, and stop the disappearance of permafrost releasing irreversible quantities of greenhouse gases back into the atmosphere.

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.

Lead the reader toward the thought, then stop a little short.

The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice.

Hemingway, damn his soul, makes everything he writes terrifically exciting (and incidentally makes all us second-raters seem positively adolescent) by the seemingly simple expedient of the iceberg principle - three-fourths of the substance under the surface. He comes closer that way to retaining the magic of the original, unexpressed idea or emotion, which is always more stirring than any words. But just try and do it!

the inferred is always more effective than the obvious.

Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.

The Arctic is among the least understood places on the planet; however, we do know that its landscape is changing and evolving as quickly as cell phones and the Internet.

What people don't understand about the Arctic is that this isn't just about those other people, those Eskimos that have nothing to do with us. The Arctic drives the climate of the whole globe.

Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.

Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.

The sea is not rising. It hasn't risen in 50 years.

Where I live in Connecticut was ice a mile above my house, all the way back to the North Pole, about 15 million kilometers, that's a big ice cube. But then it started to melt. We're talking about the floods of our living history.

The whole climate is changing: the winds, the ocean currents, the storm patterns, snow packs, snowmelt, flooding, droughts. Temperature is just a bit of it.

God thawed the Arctic so we can drill there.

There is still significant uncertainty around all of the factors that affect climate change.

I love the challenge of having an audience know what you're thinking without having to tell the audience what you're thinking.

I purposely adopted a style in my storytelling wherein I don't have to explain everything or why the story is moving in a particular way.