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 have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.
To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.
Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?
He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.
We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.
[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.
Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
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.
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