Quotes by
Ernest Hemingway |
1899-1961 , American writer, Nobel 1954
American novelist and short-story writer, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He was noted both for the intense masculinity of his writing and for his adventurous and widely publicized life. His succinct and lucid prose style exerted a powerful influence on American and British fiction in the 20th century. | 24 quotes | 2,372 visits |
Quotations
| • | Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors. 12 |
| • | Write drunk, edit sober. 10 |
| • | Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. 8 |
| • | Sometimes following your heart means losing your mind. 8 |
| • | Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games. 7 |
| • | The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places. 6 |
| • | I drink to make other people more interesting. 6 |
| • | Courage is grace under pressure. 5 |
| • | Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. 4 |
| • | When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead. 4 |
| • | A man can be destroyed but not defeated. 4 |
| • | It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better. 4 |
| • | Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. 3 |
| • | All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. 3 |
| • | The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him. 3 |
| • | All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. 2 |
| • | We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. 2 |
| • | There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. 2 |
| • | There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self 2 |
| • | If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it. 2 |
| • | As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary. 2 |
| • | I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together. 2 |
| • | All bad writers are in love with the epic. 2 |
Personal Stories
| • | Only three things in my life I've really liked to do - hunt, write and make love. 2 |
