1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

We wait always for something that does not come.

It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop it all that I could but there have been many abuses by people I trusted. You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.

Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

A writer's problem does not change. It is always how to write truly and having found out what is true to project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of the person who reads it.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

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've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.