Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last country to realize they were cooked would win the war.

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

Now, feel. I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. And feel now. Thou hast no heart but mine.

I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced...

In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did not completely trust anyone.

Good writing is true writing. If a man is making a story up it will be true in proportion to the amount of knowledge of life that he has and how conscientious he is; so that when he makes something up it is as it would truly be.

Please tell me what can I do. There must be something I can do

During the night two porpoises came around the boat and he could hear them rolling and blowing. He could tell the difference between the blowing noise the male made and the sighing blow of the female. 'They are good,' he said. 'They play and make jokes and love one another. They are our brothers like the flying fish.

When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me.

You know you're writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

And chase hard and good and with no mistakes and do not overrun them.

You want everything so much and when you get it it's over and you don't give a damn.