Courage is grace under pressure.

— Ernest Hemingway

Cowardice as distinguished from panic is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

— Ernest Hemingway

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

— Ernest Hemingway

Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

— Ernest Hemingway

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

— Ernest Hemingway

Dear Jesus, please get me out. Christ, please, please, please, Christ. If you only keep me from being killed I'll do anything you say. I believe in you and I'll tell everybody in the world that you are the only thing that matters. Please, please, dear Jesus' The shelling moved further up the line. We went to work on the trench and in the morning the sun came up, and the day was hot and muggy and cheerful and quiet. The next night back at Master he did not tell the girl he went upstairs with at the Villa Rosa about Jesus. And he never told anybody.

— Ernest Hemingway

Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.

— Ernest Hemingway

Don't you believe I love you? Don't know how I can make you believe. I didn't want to kiss you goodbye--that was the trouble--I wanted to kiss you goodnight. […] Of course, I love you. I love you all the time. […] I'd like to hold you and kiss you so that you wouldn't doubt whether I wanted to or not.

— Ernest Hemingway

Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged.

— Ernest Hemingway

Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterward. But never feel as good as while writing.

— Ernest Hemingway