Ernest Hemingway

A cat has absolute honesty.

— Ernest Hemingway

All thinking men are atheists.

— Ernest Hemingway

“Nobody likes to life anchors.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Every true story ends in death.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“its pretty to think so”

— Ernest Hemingway

Not the why but the what.

— Ernest Hemingway

“we are all bitched from the start”

— Ernest Hemingway

“The madness all over”

— Ernest Hemingway

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

— Ernest Hemingway

Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.

— Ernest Hemingway

I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone.

— Ernest Hemingway

Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.

— Ernest Hemingway

“And this,' he was saying aloud. 'And this. And this.”

— Ernest Hemingway

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

— Ernest Hemingway

It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.

— Ernest Hemingway

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

— Ernest Hemingway

“Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you’re not taking advantage of it?”

— Ernest Hemingway

There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

— Ernest Hemingway

“If there were God, never would He have permitted what I have seen with my eyes. Let them have God.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO If I live long enough the luck will change.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.

— Ernest Hemingway

So now do not worry, take what you have, and do your work and you will have a long life and a…

— Ernest Hemingway

Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things

— Ernest Hemingway

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you…

— Ernest Hemingway

“He had tried a few practice matches with his left hand. But his left hand had always been a traitor and would…

— Ernest Hemingway

“He was going to sleep a little while. He lay still and death was not there. It must have gone around another…

— Ernest Hemingway

Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered.…

— Ernest Hemingway

You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do…

— Ernest Hemingway

On the 'Star,' you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will…

— Ernest Hemingway

He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Churchill drank twice what I did if you could believe the accounts and he had just been awarded the Nobel Prize for…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Look at the ugliness. Yet one has a feeling within one that blinds a man while he loves you. You, with that…

— Ernest Hemingway

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to…

— Ernest Hemingway

“He died, as the Spanish phrase has it, full of illusions. He had not had time in his life to lose any…

— Ernest Hemingway

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading…

— Ernest Hemingway

You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Nobody climbs on skis now and almost everybody breaks their legs but maybe it is easier in the end to break your…

— Ernest Hemingway

“No. The two kinds of fools we have in Russia," karkov grinned and began. "First there is the winter fool. The winter…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Hem, you know I don't think that owner's wife where you live likes me. She wouldn't let me wait upstairs for you.'…

— Ernest Hemingway