Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

— Ernest Hemingway

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

— Ernest Hemingway

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story, although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day.

— Ernest Hemingway

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened, and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterward it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

— Ernest Hemingway

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened, and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

— Ernest Hemingway

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

— Ernest Hemingway

All thinking men are atheists.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway