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
Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.
You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.
Everybody has something wrong with them.
A continent ages quickly once we come. The natives live in harmony with it. But the foreigner destroys, cuts down the trees, drains the water, so that the water supply is altered, and in a short time the soil, once the sod is turned under, is cropped out and, next, it starts to blow away as it has blown away in every old country and as I had seen it start to blow in Canada. The earth gets tired of being exploited.
It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.
We wait always for something that does not come.
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after the first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cold and you warm as you write.
What I learned constructive about women is that no matter how old they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.
Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.
There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.
Never confuse motions with action.
What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.
The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.
Live it up so you can write it down.