Ernest Hemingway

"The greatest power is the power to forgive."

"A writer must always serve the truth, never the audience."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."

"Courage is grace under pressure."

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

"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever."

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake."

"Hemingway believed that to write well, one must first live well."

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

"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love."

"Writing and travel are the keys to a full life."

"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof detector for fraudulence."

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."

"A man can be destroyed but not defeated if he maintains his dignity."

"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for."

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

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

"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened."

"Each day of not writing, the author's heart dies a little."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"Hemingway understood that solitude was essential for the creative mind."

"Love is a dangerous thing. It can make you do foolish things."

"Never tell your problems to anyone. Twenty percent don't care and the other eighty percent are glad you have them."

"The fish is my brother."

"True nobility is being superior to your former self."

"Hemingway believed that every person has their own private world that no one can fully enter."

"In writing, it is important to omit unnecessary details and focus on what truly matters."

"An old man who will die is not as old as he was at that moment."

"To be a writer, one must be willing to sacrifice comfort for truth."

"You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another."