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
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.
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
For what are we born if not to aid one another?
The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.
The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.
i believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try and make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. then you write for who you love whether they can read or write or not and whether they are alive or dead.