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
Drinking is a way of ending the day.
I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.
you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
My big fish must be somewhere.
You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.
I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.
Nobody climbs on skis now and almost everybody breaks their legs but maybe it is easier in the end to break your legs than to break your heart although they say that everything breaks now and that sometimes, afterwards, many are stronger at the broken places.