Ernest Hemingway

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

The way to learn whether you can trust a man is to give him trust.

We are all bitched from the start and you are a lucky man to remember it.

The courage of a lion is nothing compared to the courage of a mother.

Never mistake motion for action.

The world is a good place and worth the fighting for.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think too much about what he is seeing. It will come out in his writing if he truly sees it.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

I have a good life but I must write because if I do not write a certain amount I do not enjoy the rest of my life.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

Never confuse movement with action.

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

The hardest thing in the world to do is to write straight honest prose about human beings.

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.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.

When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.

I still believe, though, that the best writing is done on an empty stomach.

Courage is grace under pressure.