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
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.
You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.
The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.
I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.
No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.
Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.
It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.
Courage is grace under pressure.
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.