Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened, and after you've read one of them you will feel that all that happened, happened to you and it belongs to you forever:the happiness and unhappiness, the good and evil, ecstasy and sorrow, the food, wine, beds, people and weather. If you can give that to reader, then you're a writer

"I love sleep. My life has this tendency to fall apart when I'm awake you know?"

"All I wanted to do now was get back to Africa.  We had not left it yet, but when I would wake in the night, I would lie, listening, homesick for it already."

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

All things truly wicked start from an innocence.

All things truly wicked start from an innocence.

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.

If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.

It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

Man can be defeated, but never destroyed.