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
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.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.
One cat just leads to another.
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
In order to write about life first you must live it.
If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.
It's a town you come to for a short time.