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 road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.
In every port in the world, at least two Estonians can be found.
The smallest coffins are the heaviest.
Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.
Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.
To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.
There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.
Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .
Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.
I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
When you have a child, the world has a hostage.
I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.
People fall in love, but have to climb out.