1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.

Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.

In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.