Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
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No one ever stopped when they were winning.
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I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.
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Man is not made for defeat.
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I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.
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Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.
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All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.
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All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.
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If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.
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So far, 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.
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And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No
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Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.
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Not the why but the what.
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The further you go in writing the more alone you are.
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I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.
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I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.
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There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.
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Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.
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You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?
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You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.
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How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of the pictures. Then it is the binding. If a book is good, the owner will have it bound properly. All books in English are bound, but bound badly. There is no way of judging them.
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I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.
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No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.