1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn’t help it.

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.

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

I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.

I write description in longhand because that’s hardest for me and you’re closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.

Strong in all the Broken Places.

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It’s been that way all this year. It’s been that way so many times. All of war is that way.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.