Ernest Hemingway
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.Collection: Morning
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.Collection: God
A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.Collection: Knowledge
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.Collection: Time
Never mistake motion for action.Collection: Brainy
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.Collection: Good
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.Collection: War
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.Collection: Death
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.Collection: Great
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.Collection: Intelligence
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.Collection: Love
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.Collection: Death
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.Collection: Hope
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.Collection: Trust
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.Collection: Happiness
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.Collection: Best
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.Collection: Death
Time is the least thing we have of.Collection: Time
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.Collection: Best
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.Collection: Architecture
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.Collection: Sports
You're beautiful, like a May fly.Collection: Beauty
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.Collection: Great
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?Collection: Failure
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.Collection: Age
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.Collection: Death
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.Collection: Men
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.Collection: Failure
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.Collection: War
Wars are caused by undefended wealth.Collection: War
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.Collection: Best
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.Collection: Architecture
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.Collection: Imagination
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.Collection: War
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.Collection: War
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.Collection: War
You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just depict life - or criticize it - but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful.Collection: Experience
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.Collection: Business
Courage is grace under pressure.Collection: Courage
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.Collection: Travel
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.Collection: Success
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?Collection: Love
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.Collection: Communication
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.Collection: Death
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.Collection: Chance
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.Collection: Strength
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.Collection: Men
Man is not made for defeat.Collection: Failure
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.Collection: War
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.