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
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.
When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.
There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.