Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. Ernest Hemingway on age
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. Ernest Hemingway on architecture
Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. Ernest Hemingway on architecture
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. Ernest Hemingway on art
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. Ernest Hemingway on best
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. Ernest Hemingway on best
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can. Ernest Hemingway on best
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. Ernest Hemingway on best
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. Ernest Hemingway on business
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it. Ernest Hemingway on communication
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. Ernest Hemingway on death
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. Ernest Hemingway on death
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. Ernest Hemingway on death
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. Ernest Hemingway on death
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure? Ernest Hemingway on failure
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. Ernest Hemingway on fear
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. Ernest Hemingway on funny
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. Ernest Hemingway on god
About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. Ernest Hemingway on good