Ernest Hemingway Quotes

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

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

Man is not made for defeat.

Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

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

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

Time is the least thing we have of.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

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.

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true.

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

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.