Ernest Hemingway Quotes

As long as you can start you are all right. The juice will come.

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last in it and not be smashed by it.

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write and then I remember that it was always difficult and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

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

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing or very little the shock can kill a man.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

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 movable feast.

The writer must write what he has to say not speak it.

His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention out of his experience should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.

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.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

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.

Time is the least thing we have of.

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

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