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
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
Most people never listen.
Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?
Being against evil doesn't make you good.
No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.
London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.
Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.
It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea...
To be successful in writing, use short sentences.
Fascism is a lie told by bullies.
The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.
The writer's job is to tell the truth,