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.
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.
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.
Work could cure almost anything
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.
If a writer stops observing, he is finished.
Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.
Write drunk; edit sober.