Ernest Hemingway
Novelist, journalist
Sayings by Ernest Hemingway
Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.
If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.
I learned a long time ago that you can't make people love you. You can, however, make them fear you.
The worst thing about a fight is the part where you're not fighting.
The man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on it when it is rough, and he will not know how to handle his boat.
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you were no exception.
I had a good life. I had a good life, but I was not happy.
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
I believe that all the people who have lived are not dead, but they are here with us, and they are watching.
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.
Don't bother with churches, government or political organizations. They're all run by greedy pigs.
I still believe in God, but I'm not a religious man.
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-eighth of it being above water.
When you stop doing things for other people, you can actually get things done.
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.
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
The great thing about a man is that he can endure anything.