Ernest Hemingway Quotes

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

Never confuse movement with action... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency.. view

By: Ernest Hemingway

Man is not made for defeat... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

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

By: Ernest Hemingway

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

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

By: Ernest Hemingway

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?.. view

By: Ernest Hemingway

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

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

By: Ernest Hemingway

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

Never mistake motion for action... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly.. view

By: Ernest Hemingway

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

There is no friend as loyal as a book... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places... view

By: Ernest Hemingway

The shortest answer is doing the thing... view

By: Ernest Hemingway