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
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.
Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.
But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.
Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.
My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.