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.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Ernest Hemingway

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

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

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.

Ernest Hemingway

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

Ernest Hemingway

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Ernest Hemingway

The 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.

The 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

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Ernest Hemingway

I 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.

I 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

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