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
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.
I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.
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 kind of writing is rewriting.
What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
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.
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.