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
This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
The great thing is to last and get your work done, and see and hear and understand and write when there is something that you know and not before and not too damn much afterwards.
For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.
Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.
I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful.
You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]
The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.
A cat has absolute honesty.
Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.
I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be
Work could cure almost anything
Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
Never mistake movement for action