Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingwaywas an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. Additional works, including three novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 July 1899
CityOak Park, IL
CountryUnited States of America
The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.
Live it up so you can write it down.
Before you quit, you have to try
I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.
The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.
I am like a blind pig when I work.
Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things
Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate.
Life is pain, so live it up while you can.
Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.
How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of the pictures. Then it is the binding. If a book is good, the owner will have it bound properly. All books in English are bound, but bound badly. There is no way of judging them.
I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.