1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him.

You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.

First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

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

The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me.

They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.