Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

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

That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist’s Reward.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

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.

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.

A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.