"Do you know how an ugly woman..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“Never mistake movement for action”

“Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.”

“I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.”

“Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, more ecstatic.”

“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”

“Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid,more widely differentiated than those of women. In the odor of young men there is something elemental, as of fire, storm, and salt sea. It pulsates with buoyancy and desire. It suggests all the things strong and beautiful and joyous and gives me a sense of physical happiness.”

“I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.”

“But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.”

“I thought that because I wasn't a sickly person - I never have been - I thought I was healthy. So I assumed health. I didn't have it.”