Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

I’m not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened.

The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.