“For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.”

— Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize Speech (1954)

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 content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.”

“Learn to know thy heart, And, as the times, so let thy manners change, For by the law of change a new God rules.”

“From a Child I was fond of Reading, and all the little Money that came into my Hands was ever laid out in Books.”

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”

“It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.”