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 don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.
Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.
I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.
You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.
If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.
You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.
Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?
that every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a marvelous discovery
By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.
Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.
Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.