Ernest Hemingway Quotes

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Ernest Hemingway

Profession : Novelist

Birth : July 21, 1899

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

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

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Ernest Hemingway

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.

Ernest Hemingway

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Ernest Hemingway

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Ernest Hemingway

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

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

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

Ernest Hemingway

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

Ernest Hemingway

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

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

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

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

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

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

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

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

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Ernest Hemingway