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
You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just depict life - or criticize it - but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful.
All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.
Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.
Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.
I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.
Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.
You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.
There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.
After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.
Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.
No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.
The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.