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
The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.
Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.
America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of shit that it demanded.
You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you dies each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason.
The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.