Ernest Hemingway Quotes

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

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

Now is the time to think of only one thing. That which I was born for.

He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

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

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around café s.

You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a b**ch. Yes. It’s sort of what we have instead of God.

You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?

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