1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance.

Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

I don’t want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.

I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one’s own body.

Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day’s work.

The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he’s intelligent. He simply doesn’t mention them.

It wasn’t by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be.

Isn’t it pretty to think so.