Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
Never confuse movement with action.
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.
You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
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.
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.
Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
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.
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.
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.
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
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.
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.
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
