“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
Ernest Hemingway Quotes
1899 – 1961
American novelist and short-story writer, Nobel laureate (1954), author of 'The Old Man and the Sea' and 'A Farewell to Arms'.
25 quotesAbout Ernest Hemingway on Wikipedia
“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.”
“Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”
“A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.”
“You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.”
“Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.”
“The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings.”
“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”
“A serious writer is not to be confused with a solemn writer.”
“The great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own.”
“All good books have one thing in common — they are truer than if they had really happened.”
“The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is.”
“All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin.”
