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
Live it up so you can write it down.
Before you quit, you have to try
All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.
Time is the least thing we have.
The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.
I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.
Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.
When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.
Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.
I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.
You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.
So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after and judged by these standards, which I do not defend, the bullfight is very normal to me because I feel very fine while it is going on and have a feeling of life and death and mortality and immortality, and after it is over I feel very sad but also very fine.
Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!