A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
~Ernest Hemingway Quotes
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really
funny book.
~Ernest Hemingway Quotes
I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best.
My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
~Ernest Hemingway Quote
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.
~Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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 Quotes
Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and
those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for
anything else thereafter.
~Ernest Hemingway, "On the Blue Water," Esquire,
April 1936
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 Quotes
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public
authority, just cause, right motive.
~Ernest Hemingway Quotes
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in
the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very
good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of
these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
~Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929
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 Quotes
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
~Ernest Hemingway Quotes
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where
he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try
for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed.
Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
~Ernest Hemingway, in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion
to age.
~Ernest Hemingway Quotes
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they
had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that
all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the
bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the
weather was.
~Ernest Hemingway, Old Newsman Writes, Esquire, December
1934
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.
~Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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 Quotes
Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.
~Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
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 Quotes
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening
carefully. Most people never listen.
~Ernest Hemingway Quotes
In order to write about life, first you must live it!
~Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when
I'm awake, you know?
~Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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