Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

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

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.

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

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

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

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

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

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.