Quotes By Ernest Hemingway

I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

You're beautiful, like a May fly.

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

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

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

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

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.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

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

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.

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.

Man is not made for defeat.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

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

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.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

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.

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.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.