Ernest Hemingway

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#novel

So far, 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. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#morals #right #right-and-wrong #wrong #death

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#life

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#death #end #enough #far #keep

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

— Ernest Hemingway

#self-awareness #sun

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#days #die #dog #dying #fitting

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#business #how #learn #none #their

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

— Ernest Hemingway

#first time #i #life #looked #my life

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#self-sacrifice #love

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

— Ernest Hemingway

#writer