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
No one ever stopped when they were winning.
Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good.
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.
No horse named Morbid ever won a race.
I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.
It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
All thinking men are atheists.
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.
You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.