If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.Quote by Ernest Hemingway about dignity, writers, water, writing, being, things
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.Quote by Ernest Hemingway about feast, man, life
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.Quote by Ernest Hemingway about bad, work
In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me...Quote by Ernest Hemingway about wine, drinking, food, happiness, thinking, being
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.Quote by Ernest Hemingway about reason, war, good, good luck
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.Quote by Ernest Hemingway about affair
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.Quote by Ernest Hemingway about love, death, end
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.Quote by Ernest Hemingway about defeat, man
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.Quote by Ernest Hemingway
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.Quote by Ernest Hemingway about crime, criminals, war
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.Quote by Ernest Hemingway about moral
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.Quote by Ernest Hemingway about war, defeat, things
Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.Quote by 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.Quote by Ernest Hemingway
Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.Quote by Ernest Hemingway about poets
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.Quote by Ernest Hemingway about architecture