Quotes about Truth
This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.
— Ernest Hemingway
Lie life through its fullest
— Ernest Hemingway
Write the truest sentence you know. Then write another. -- Hemingway's advice to other young writers in A Moveable Feast.
— Ernest Hemingway
Any form of betrayal can be final. Dishonesty can be final. Selling out is final. But you are just talking now. Death is what is really final.
— Ernest Hemingway
The hardest thing in the world to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings.
— Ernest Hemingway
You go along your whole life and they seem as though they mean something and they always end up not meaning anything.
— Ernest Hemingway
Don't think about that either. If you don't think about it, it doesn't exist. The hell it doesn't. But that's the system I'm going on, he thought.
— Ernest Hemingway
But the world they were in was not the world he was in.
— Ernest Hemingway
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.
— Ernest Hemingway
Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.
— Etty Hillesum
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
— Andrew Jackson
While public opinion might sway back and forth, right and wrong do not.
— Andy Andrews