1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.

It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped over a stick.

I loved her and I loved no one else and we had a lovely magic time while we were alone. I worked well and we made great trips, and I thought we were invulnerable again, and it wasn't until we were out of the mountains in late spring, and back in Paris, that the other thing started again.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.

The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.

I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is in rebellion against death, as I am in rebellion against death, he gets pleasure out of taking to himself one of the godlike attributes; that of giving it.

I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.