Ernest Hemingway

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. ”

You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just depict life - or criticize it - but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. ”

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? ”

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other. ”

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. ”

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. ”

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. ”

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. ”

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. ”

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. ”