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
I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.
There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.
Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.
The shortest answer is doing the thing.
I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.