1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

The only decent bone in her body was mine.

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality. That is why you write and for no other reason that you know of. But what about all the reasons that no one knows?

He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.

Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.

Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.

I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.