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
Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again." "Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?" "Yes. I want to ruin you." "Good," I said. "That's what I want too.
Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.
Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.
Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.
Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.
Always quit for the day when you know what you want to do next.
I do not want you ever to initiate any action for any refunds of taxes without first consulting me and presenting the matter fully to me so that I may judge whether it is an honorable and ethical action to take, not simply legally, but according to my own personal standards.
Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.
I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.
I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.
Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.
I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.
You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.