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
Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.
One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.
All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.
A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.
Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.
Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.
Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.
The only kind of writing is rewriting.
Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.
Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.
Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill.
It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.
The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.