Ernest Hemingway Quotes And Sayings

For A Long Time Now I Have Tried Simply To Write The Best I Can. Sometimes I Have Good Luck And Write Better Than I Can.

Every Man's Life Ends The Same Way. It Is Only The Details Of How He Lived And How He Died That Distinguish One Man From Another.

All Good Books Have One Thing In Common - They Are Truer Than If They Had Really Happened.

I Never Had To Choose A Subject - My Subject Rather Chose Me.

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.

What Is Moral Is What You Feel Good After, And What Is Immoral Is What You Feel Bad After.

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.

An Intelligent Man Is Sometimes Forced To Be Drunk To Spend Time With His Fools.

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.

Madame, All Stories, If Continued Far Enough, End In Death, And He Is No True-story Teller Who Would Keep That From You.

Fear Of Death Increases In Exact Proportion To Increase In Wealth.

No Weapon Has Ever Settled A Moral Problem. It Can Impose A Solution But It Cannot Guarantee It To Be A Just One.

They Wrote In The Old Days That It Is Sweet And Fitting To Die For One's Country. But In Modern War, There Is Nothing Sweet Nor Fitting In Your Dying. You Will Die Like A Dog For No Good Reason.

Writing And Travel Broaden Your Ass If Not Your Mind And I Like To Write Standing Up.

I Know Only That What Is Moral Is What You Feel Good After And What Is Immoral Is What You Feel Bad After.

About Morals, I Know Only That What Is Moral Is What You Feel Good After And What Is Immoral Is What You Feel Bad After.

When Writing A Novel A Writer Should Create Living People; People Not Characters. A Character Is A Caricature.

We Are All Apprentices In A Craft Where No One Ever Becomes A Master.

Pound's Crazy. All Poets Are. They Have To Be. You Don't Put A Poet Like Pound In The Loony Bin.

Time Is The Least Thing We Have Of.

When I Am Working On A Book Or A Story, I Write Every Morning As Soon After First Light As Possible. There Is No One To Disturb You, And It Is Cool Or Cold, And You Come To Your Work And Warm As You Write.

A Writer Of Fiction Is Really... A Congenital Liar Who Invents From His Own Knowledge Or That Of Other Men.

I Rewrote The Ending To 'Farewell To Arms,' The Last Page Of It, Thirty-nine Times Before I Was Satisfied.

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.

All Our Words From Loose Using Have Lost Their Edge.

All Things Truly Wicked Start From Innocence.

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.

A Serious Writer Is Not To Be Confounded With A Solemn Writer. A Serious Writer May Be A Hawk Or A Buzzard Or Even A Popinjay, But A Solemn Writer Is Always A Bloody Owl.

For A True Writer, Each Book Should Be A New Beginning Where He Tries Again For Something That Is Beyond Attainment. He Should Always Try For Something That Has Never Been Done Or That Others Have Tried And Failed. Then Sometimes, With Great Luck, He Will Succeed.

I Like To Listen. I Have Learned A Great Deal From Listening Carefully. Most People Never Listen.

I Love To Go To The Zoo. But Not On Sunday. I Don't Like To See The People Making Fun Of The Animals, When It Should Be The Other Way Around.

I Wake Up In The Morning And My Mind Starts Making Sentences, And I Have To Get Rid Of Them Fast - Talk Them Or Write Them Down.

Once Writing Has Become Your Major Vice And Greatest Pleasure, Only Death Can Stop It.

I Know Now That There Is No One Thing That Is True - It Is All True.

The Game Of Golf Would Lose A Great Deal If Croquet Mallets And Billiard Cues Were Allowed On The Putting Green.

The Shortest Answer Is Doing The Thing.

For A War To Be Just Three Conditions Are Necessary - Public Authority, Just Cause, Right Motive.

I Don't Like To Write Like God. It Is Only Because You Never Do It, Though, That The Critics Think You Can't Do It.

I'm Not Going To Get Into The Ring With Tolstoy.

I Always Rewrite Each Day Up To The Point Where I Stopped. When It Is All Finished, Naturally You Go Over It. You Get Another Chance To Correct And Rewrite When Someone Else Types It, And You See It Clean In Type. The Last Chance Is In The Proofs. You're Grateful For These Different Chances.

But Man Is Not Made For Defeat. A Man Can Be Destroyed But Not Defeated.

All Modern American Literature Comes From One Book By Mark Twain Called Huckleberry Finn.

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.

That Terrible Mood Of Depression Of Whether It's Any Good Or Not Is What Is Known As The Artist's Reward.

Man Is Not Made For Defeat.

In Modern War... You Will Die Like A Dog For No Good Reason.

A Man's Got To Take A Lot Of Punishment To Write A Really Funny Book.

Bullfighting Is The Only Art In Which The Artist Is In Danger Of Death And In Which The Degree Of Brilliance In The Performance Is Left To The Fighter's Honor.

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.

When You Go To War As A Boy, You Have A Great Illusion Of Immortality. Other People Get Killed, Not You... Then, When You Are Badly Wounded The First Time, You Lose That Illusion, And You Know It Can Happen To You.