“Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.”
– 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.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“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.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.”
– 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.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“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.”
– 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.”
– 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.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“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.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist’s Reward.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“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.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“In modern war… you will die like a dog for no good reason.”
– 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.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“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.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“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.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“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.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?”
– Ernest Hemingway
“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.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.”
– 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.”
– 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.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“Courage is grace under pressure.”
– 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.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
– Ernest Hemingway