To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years. – Ernest Hemingway
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive. – Ernest Hemingway
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it. – Ernest Hemingway
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. – Ernest Hemingway
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self. – Ernest Hemingway
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
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. – Ernest Hemingway
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. – Ernest Hemingway
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. – Ernest Hemingway
On the ‘Star,’ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time. – Ernest Hemingway
Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. – Ernest Hemingway
You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself. – Ernest Hemingway
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
When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea. – Ernest Hemingway
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. – Ernest Hemingway