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
Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.
Never confuse movement with action.
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ.
Look at things and listen and feel.
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.
The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is
The first draft of anything is sh*t.