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
The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.
Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.
We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.
My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.
I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.
The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.
I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.
How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.
I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.
Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.
How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
Drinking is a way of ending the day.