Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

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

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

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

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

After you finish a book, you know, you're dead. But no one knows you're dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.

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.

How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

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 movable feast.

You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.

The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.

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

The writer's job is to tell the truth.

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

You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane.

When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.

Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No

You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.

'For Whom the Bell Tolls' was a problem which I carried on each day. I knew what was going to happen in principle. But I invented what happened each day I wrote.

A big lie is more plausible than truth.

His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.