Ernest Hemingway Quotes

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
Ernest Hemingway

Book, American, Literature

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway

Good, Bad, After

Man is not made for defeat.
Ernest Hemingway

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
Ernest Hemingway

Master, Craft, Becomes

Never confuse movement with action.
Ernest Hemingway

Action, Movement, Confuse

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

Travel, Mind, Writing

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
Ernest Hemingway

Writing, May, Enough

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
Ernest Hemingway

Older, Necessary, Heroes

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
Ernest Hemingway

Good, Depression, Artist

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway

Defeat, Defeated, Destroyed

Never mistake motion for action.
Ernest Hemingway

Action, Mistake, Motion

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Ernest Hemingway

Age, Risk, Equal

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
Ernest Hemingway

Cannot, Problem, Moral

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Ernest Hemingway

Life, Time, Words

I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.
Ernest Hemingway

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
Ernest Hemingway

Good, Books, Common

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Ernest Hemingway

Death, Fear, Wealth

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
Ernest Hemingway

Lost, Words, Using

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Ernest Hemingway

Funny, Book, Write

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway

Good, Bad, After

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
Ernest Hemingway

Rock, Sometimes, Write

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
Ernest Hemingway

Best, Down, Put

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Ernest Hemingway

Time, Good, Best

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Ernest Hemingway

Death, End, Enough

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: July 21, 1899

Died: July 2, 1961

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