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The author of the following quotes: Ernest HemingwayQuotes by Ernest Hemingway :
An end to journeyIt is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Ernest Hemingway | goals
BullfightingBullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
Ernest Hemingway | death
Fear of deathFear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Ernest Hemingway | death
For a war to be justFor a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
Ernest Hemingway | war and peace
I hate leaving itThe world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Ernest Hemingway | death
I knowI know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.
Ernest Hemingway | truth
In modern warIn modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway | war and peace
In modern warThey wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway | war and peace
It's none of their businessIt's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Ernest Hemingway | writing
Looking at wordsAll my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Ernest Hemingway | writing
NeverNever go on trips with anyone you do not love.
Ernest Hemingway | travel
No rule on how to writeThere 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 | writing
No true-story tellerMadame, 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
Not a caricatureWhen writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway | writing
Not defeatedA man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway | men and women
Omitting thingsIf 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
PunishmentA man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Ernest Hemingway | writing
Serious writers and solemn writersA serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
Ernest Hemingway | writing
StrongerThe world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway | strength
The good parts of a bookThe good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
Ernest Hemingway | writing
The well of my writingI 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.
Ernest Hemingway | writing
There is nothing to writingThere is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Ernest Hemingway | writing
To be a successful fatherTo be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
Ernest Hemingway | fathers
We are all apprenticesWe are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
Ernest Hemingway | writing
Writing betterFor 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 | writing
Writing like GodI don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
Ernest Hemingway | writing
Writing standing upWriting and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
Ernest Hemingway | writing
Writing trulyThere are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
Ernest Hemingway | writing
Quotes by most famous authors / Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
