A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

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

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

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

All things truly wicked start from innocence.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

Courage is grace under pressure.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

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.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

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

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

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

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 Quote

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.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

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 Quote

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.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

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.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

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 Quote

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

Never confuse movement with action.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

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

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

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

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

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.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

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 Quote

The shortest answer is doing the thing.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

There is no friend as loyal as a book.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

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.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

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 Quote

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
- Ernest Hemingway Quote