Ernest Hemingway Quotes

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”

“Courage is grace under pressure.”

“But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”

“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”

“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”

“When people talk, listen completely.”

“The shortest answer is doing the thing.”

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

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”

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

“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.”

“For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.”

“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.”

“I rewrote the ending to "Farewell to Arms," the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.”

“You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.”

“On the "Star," you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone.”

“That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.”

“All our words from loose using have lost their edge.”

“Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, but eventually they are quite clear, and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses, he will endure or be forgotten.”

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

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

“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.”

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”