“Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.”

— Ernest Hemingway, Paris Review interview (1958)

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.”

“Something the heart must have to cherish, must love and joy and sorrow learn.”

“Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.”

“It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.”

“Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and of grief!”

“It is of the essence of joy to reveal itself, while grief tries to hide, sometimes even to deceive.”

“A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery!”