Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

About Ernest Hemingway:

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. Additional works, including three novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works, were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.
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But I could tell thee of other things, , and do not doubt what thou simply cannot see nor cannot hear. Thou canst not hear what a dog hears. Nor canst thou smell what a dog smells. But already thou hast experienced a little of what can happen to man.

Ernest Hemingway

He had only one thing to do and that was what he should think about and he must think it out clearly and take everything as it came along, and not worry. To worry was a bad as to be afraid. It simply made things more difficult.

Ernest Hemingway

There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.

Ernest Hemingway

How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to real...

Ernest Hemingway

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

Ernest Hemingway

let us sleep," he said and he felt the long light body, warm against him, comforting against him, abolishing loneliness against him, magically, by a simple touching of flanks, of shoulders and of feet, making an alliance against death with him.

Ernest Hemingway

He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.

Ernest Hemingway

He smelled the odor of the pine boughs under him, the piney smell of the crushed needles and the sharper odor of the resinous sap from the cut limbs. ... This is the smell I love. This and fresh-cut clover, the crushed sage as you ride after cattle, ...

Ernest Hemingway

I obscenity in the milk of my shame.

Ernest Hemingway

I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only...

Ernest Hemingway

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

Ernest Hemingway

You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

Ernest Hemingway

I hope I am not for the killing, Anselmo was thinking. I think that after the war there will have to be some great penance done for the killing. If we no longer have religion after the war then I think there must be some form of civic penance organiz...

Ernest Hemingway

But these, wide-finned in silver, roaring, the light mist of their propellers in the sun, these do not move like sharks. They move like nothing there has ever been. They move like mechanized doom.

Ernest Hemingway

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Ernest Hemingway

Never mistake motion for action.

Ernest Hemingway

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Ernest Hemingway

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

Ernest Hemingway

For 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

Ma che cosa posso raccontare a questa ragazza, ora, in questa fredda mattina ventosa al Gritti Palace Hotel? “Che cosa vorresti sapere, Figlia?” le chiese “Tutto quanto.” “Va bene” disse il colonnello. “Incominciamo.

Ernest Hemingway

Author Bio

  • NameErnest Hemingway
  • DescriptionAmerican author and journalist
  • AliasesHemingway ernest; Hemingway; ErnestHemingway; Ernest Heminway; Ernest Hemmingway; Ernest Miller Hemmingway; E. M. Hemmingway; E. Hemmingway; Earnest Hemmingway; E. Hemingway; Ernest M. Hemingway
  • BornJuly 21, 1899
  • DiedJuly 2, 1961
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWar Correspondent; Screenwriter; Writer; Novelist; Journalist; Autobiographer; Playwright
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature; Bronze Star Medal