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
When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?
What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.
A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.