1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

The further you go in writing the more alone you are.

Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.

So far, 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 and judged by these standards, which I do not defend, the bullfight is very normal to me because I feel very fine while it is going on and have a feeling of life and death and mortality and immortality, and after it is over I feel very sad but also very fine.

In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.

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.

We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war. There is a class that control a country that is stupid and down not realise anything and never can. That is why we have this war. Also they make money out of it.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.

The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.