1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take away everything? ...

You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

It is very bad for (an artist) to talk about how he (creates). It is not the (artist's) province to explain or to run guided tours through the more difficult country of his work. It's none of their business that you had to learn. Let them think you were born that way.

The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.

Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.