1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don't worry.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

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.

Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.

The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education.

Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.