1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.

Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

In order to write about life first you must live it.

I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one who poverty bothers.

Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job.

If you brought up Joyce twice, you would not be invited back.

You know the fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of the experience of the person who reads it.

El hombre no está hecho para la derrota. Al hombre se le puede destruir, pero no derrotar.