Top 101 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

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

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.

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

After you finish a book, you know, you're dead. But no one knows you're dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.

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

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

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

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

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

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.