Ernest Hemingway

All good books are alike in that if you have read one carefully you have to read it again.

The best people in the world are the ones who make you laugh, even when you don't want to smile.

I love sleep. My life has a tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

If you don't know the story, you're dead.

The dignity of a man is not in what he has, but in what he is.

The hardest thing about writing a book is getting it started.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

It's fun to get to know people who are very different from you.

The rain came down, sluicing the blood from the cobblestones, and the day was clean and washed.

The most important thing in life is not to be afraid to give up what you are to get what you want.

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

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

There are some things that cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than merely to say pretty things on occasion.

You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

I learned a long time ago never to wrestle with a pig; you both get dirty, and the pig likes it.

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.