There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

- Ernest Hemingway

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.

- Ernest Hemingway

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

- Ernest Hemingway

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

- Ernest Hemingway

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

- Ernest Hemingway

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

- Ernest Hemingway

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

- Ernest Hemingway

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

- Ernest Hemingway

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

- Ernest Hemingway

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.

- Ernest Hemingway

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

- Ernest Hemingway

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

- Ernest Hemingway

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Ernest Hemingway

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

- Ernest Hemingway

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

- Ernest Hemingway

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

- Ernest Hemingway

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Ernest Hemingway

Courage is grace under pressure.

- Ernest Hemingway