Ernest Hemingway1899–1961The quotations of
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist
1899–1961
51 quotes, most often on Writing, War & Peace and Life & Death. Part of the Writers collection.
- Marita in Ch. 11
- Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 16
- For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), Ch 43
- Nobel Prize Speech (1954)
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
- Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 7
- Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 1
- For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), Ch 43
- Preface to The Great Crusade (1940) by Gustav Regler
Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
From a set of “rules for life” sent to publisher Charles Scribner IV; quoted in Scribner’s memoir In the Company of Writers (New York: Scribner, 1991), p. 64The writer’s job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.
