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
Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).
Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .
Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.
The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.
In every port in the world, at least two Estonians can be found.
Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.
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.
Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago
In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.
All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.
Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.
Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.