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
Tell me some true things about fighting.''Tell me you love me.''I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places.
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.
You never understand anybody that loves you.
Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.
Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder.
Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.
Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.
Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.
Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.