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.

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

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

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

Ernest Hemingway

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

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

Ernest Hemingway

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Ernest Hemingway

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

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

Ernest Hemingway

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.

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.

Ernest Hemingway

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 wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.

Ernest Hemingway

You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just depict life - or criticize it - but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful.

Ernest Hemingway

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

Ernest Hemingway

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