Ernest Hemingway

“That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.”

“Courage is grace under pressure.”

“Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.”

“Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.”

“I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.”

“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”

“That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.”

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

“When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.”

“There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.”

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

“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.”

“Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.”

“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”

“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.”

“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”

“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”

“I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.”

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”

“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.”

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

“Writing and travel broaden your a-s if not your mind and I like to write standing up.”

“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.”