Ernest Hemingway Quotes

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

Life, Good, Book

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

Rock, Sometimes, Write

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

Death, Fear, Wealth

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

Best, Down, Put

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

Good, Bad, After

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

Time, Good, Best

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

Death, End, Enough

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

Girl, Bad, Someone

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

Good, Different, Same

You're beautiful, like a May fly.
Ernest Hemingway

Beautiful, May, Fly

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

Down, Alcohol, Idea

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway

Almost, Simply, Ability

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

Hope, Book, Writing

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

Interior, Decoration, Prose

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

Yourself, Become, Wipe

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

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Ernest Hemingway

Business, Learn, Write

The shortest answer is doing the thing.
Ernest Hemingway

Answer, Shortest

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Ernest Hemingway

Hate, Fighting, Place

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

God, Write, Though

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

War, Happen, Once

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

Time, Doubt, Wrong

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
Ernest Hemingway

Wealth, Wars, Caused

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

Best, Happen, Truly

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

Success, Work, Become

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: July 21, 1899

Died: July 2, 1961

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