1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you’re not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you’ve lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

Remember everything is right until it’s wrong. You’ll know when it’s wrong.

I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I’ve lost 30 pounds.

Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well.

Summer is a discouraging time to work – you don’t feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.

Never write about a place until you’re away from it, because that gives you perspective.

Never write about a place until you’re away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you’ve seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That’s good practice, but it isn’t creative writing.

I’ve been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?

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