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
My big fish must be somewhere.
I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.
If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.
To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it's over but in a way it will never be over and I do know that I for sure loved this person, to be able to say that and mean it, that's rare. That's rare and valuable.
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.
In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.
People fall in love, but have to climb out.
Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.
I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.
The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.
The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.
In every port in the world, at least two Estonians can be found.