Ernest Hemingway | American Novelist Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Ernest Hemingway | American Novelist

“Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?” ― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway | American Novelist

“It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.” ― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway | American Novelist

He had married on the rebound from the rotten time he had in college, and Frances took him on the rebound from his discovery that he had not been everything to his first wife. (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises)

Ernest Hemingway | American Novelist

The thousand times that he had proved it meant nothing. Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it. (Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea)

Ernest Hemingway | American Novelist

The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it. (Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway, and Sean Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms)

Ernest Hemingway | American Novelist

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.” ― Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

Ernest Hemingway | American Novelist

“Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love.” ― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway | American Novelist

“Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?” ― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway | American Novelist

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought. But it is unavoidable. (Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea)

Ernest Hemingway | American Novelist

“By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.” ― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast