Ernest Hemingway Quotes

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

What you don't write is often more important than what you do

To understand is to forgive.

That's my town,' Joaquin said. 'What a fine town, but how the buena gente, the good people of that t...

let us sleep," he said and he felt the long light body, warm against him, comforting against him, ab...

How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of...

Besides, I'm not jealous. I'm just so in love with you that there isn't anything else.

There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can elimina...

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

…Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge a...

In truly good writing no matter how many times you read it you do not know how it is done. That is b...

He was mad and plenty brave.

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutab...

The more I'm let alone and not worried the better I can function.

I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep try...

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters... keep them people, people, people, and don'...

I still need some more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I hav...

Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.

Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is ...

I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really f...

This too to remember. If a man writes clearly enough any one can see if he fakes. If he mystifies to...

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a c...

Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making ...

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it

I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things ...

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral...

Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total of knowledge which is there at the dispo...

if I had waited long enough I probably never would have written anything at all since there is a ten...

He felt the long light body, warm against him, comforting against him, abolishing loneliness against...

Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part yo...

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid ...

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor ...

People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring its...

The blue-backed notebooks, the two pencils and the pencil sharpener (a pocket knife was too wasteful...

My wife and I had called on Miss Stein, and she and the friend who lived with her had been very cord...

Hem, you know I don't think that owner's wife where you live likes me. She wouldn't let me wait upst...

If I walked down by different streets to the Jardin du Luxembourg in the afternoon I could walk thro...

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen...

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead...

When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay and really good work is being done b...

To go to bed at night in Madrid marks you as a little queer. For a long time your friends will be a ...

You can either buy clothes or buy pictures," she said. "It's that simple. No one who is not very ric...

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of ...

With so many trees in the city, you could see the spring coming each day until a night of warm wind ...

I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima

For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit’s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been wor...

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on...

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seve...

Then I started to think in Lipp’s about when I had first been able to write a story about losing eve...

As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold...

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each o...

You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence...

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

Below Les Avants there was a chalet where the pension was wonderful and we would be together and hav...

I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. I...

The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no ...

In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did notcompletely trust an...

To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there wa...

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who...

To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there wa...

I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of ...

Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another...

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I'm not afraid of the rain. Oh, o...

I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were li...

God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. ...

I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.

I had gone...to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wa...

I felt very lonely when they were all there.

That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. They threw you in and told you ...

Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

At night, there was the feeling that we had come home, feeling no longer alone, waking in the night ...

But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was ...

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course...

In those days, there was no money to buy books.

They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they beli...

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?''Of course. Who said it?''I don't know.''He wa...

All thinking men are atheists.

I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and th...

He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ...

Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again.""Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do ...

The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of vi...

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will no...

There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dign...

Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nad...

Blood is thicker than water,"The young man saidAs he knifed his friendFor a drooling old bitchAnd a ...

The Lord is my shepherdI shall not want him for longHe maketh me to lie down in green pasturesand th...

Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is.Come let us fart in the home.There is no art i...

There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. Tha...

If my Valentine you won't be,I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.

I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebaske...

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

Look at the ugliness. Yet one has a feeling within one that blinds a man while he loves you. You, wi...

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something t...