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
Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond.
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
The shortest answer is doing the thing.
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.
The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.
The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Man is not made for defeat.
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?