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

— Ernest Hemingway, Papa Hemingway (1966)

About Ernest Hemingway

1899 – 1961

American novelist and short-story writer, Nobel laureate (1954), author of 'The Old Man and the Sea' and 'A Farewell to Arms'.

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.”

“Every day above earth is a good day.”

“The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day.”

“Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.”

“It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things.”

“For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.”

“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.”

“It was subtle of God to learn Greek when he wished to become an author—and not to learn it better.”