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 read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Worry destroys the ability to write.
I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.
My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.
Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.
Write drunk; edit sober.
it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.
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.