Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

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

    -A Moveable Feast  :05

2. “We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” 

    -The Wild Years  :05

3. “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”   

    -The Old Man and the Sea :09

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

    -A Farewell to Arms  :06

5. "It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are...”  

    -By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades    :10

6. “You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true.”  :15

    -Letter to Bernard Berenson (24 September 1954); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker

7.  “For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.” :16

    -Ernest Hemingway  Nobel Prize acceptance speech 1954

8. “He loved the warm sun of summer and the high mountain meadows, the trails through the timber and the sudden clear blue of the lakes. He loved the hills in the winter when the snow comes. Best of all he loved the fall … the fall with the tawny and grey, the leaves yellow on the cottonwoods, leaves floating on the trout streams and above the hills the high blue windless skies…”   :22

    - Hemingway wrote these famous lines about a local friend and hunting buddy who had passed. They can be found on the Hemingway Memorial along Trail Creek.

9. “At night, there was the feeling that we had come home, feeling no longer alone, waking in the night to find the other one there, and not gone away; all other things were unreal. We slept when we were tired and if we woke the other one woke too so one was not alone…” :18

    -A Farewell to Arms  

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