Ernest Hemingway
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
The shortest answer is doing the thing.
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
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.
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
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.
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.
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
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.
I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
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.
I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
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.
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.
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
'For Whom the Bell Tolls' was a problem which I carried on each day. I knew what was going to happen in principle. But I invented what happened each day I wrote.
The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.Collection: Life
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.Collection: Beauty
Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.Collection: Thinking
I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.Collection: Romantic
Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.Collection: Inspirational
Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.Collection: Men
Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.Collection: Broken
Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.Collection: Hard Times
Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.Collection: One Day
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.Collection: Love
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.Collection: Inspirational
To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.Collection: Hurt
Everything is your fault if you're any damn good.Collection: Faults
To be successful in writing, use short sentences.Collection: Writing
When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.Collection: Life
I drink to make other people more interesting.Collection: Funny
There isnt always an explanation for everything.Collection: Explanation
Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.Collection: Remembers Everything
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there isCollection: Inspirational
Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.Collection: Writing
If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take away everything?Collection: Mean
In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.Collection: Morning
For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color." - Ernest Hemingway.Collection: Eye
For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.Collection: Home
When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.Collection: Paris
I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.Collection: Intelligent