Top 101 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

About Ernest Hemingway

These are some quotes by American author Ernest Hemingway Novelist, who lived between July 21, 1899 and July 2, 1961.

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

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

Ernest Hemingway

I rewrote the ending to 'Farewell to Arms,' the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.

I rewrote the ending to 'Farewell to Arms,' the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.

Ernest Hemingway

There 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.

There 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

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

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

Ernest Hemingway

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

Ernest Hemingway

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

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

Ernest Hemingway

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Ernest Hemingway

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

Ernest Hemingway

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.

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.

Ernest Hemingway

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.

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.

Ernest Hemingway

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