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About Ernest Hemingway
American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist
Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. His work belongs to the 20th century, and he is widely known for a spare, understated style that shaped later writers. He has 257 quotes on the site. He wrote seven novels, six short-story collections, and two works of nonfiction, several of which became classics of American literature. He was also known for an adventurous public image and a blunt, outspoken manner, and he received the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.
More from Ernest Hemingway (257 quotes) →Other sayings from Ernest Hemingway
- “Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”Ernest Hemingway
- “He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was…”Ernest Hemingway
- “There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true…”Ernest Hemingway
- “Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.”Ernest Hemingway
Writing: more sayings
- “It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or cha…”Leslie Jamison
- “I write wherever I am. It helps that the writing process, for me, is a lone-wolf mission.”Passenger
- “Tell your idea to whomever will listen, and you'll get valuable market feedback before writing a single line…”Aaron Patzer
More Time quotes
- “Where are you? HereWhat time is it? NowWhat are you? This moment.”Dan Millman
- “We think of stories a lot of the time as being horizontal texts, beginning to end. But I love the idea of hav…”Lauren Groff
- “I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.”Nikita Khrushchev
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Books by Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
A short novel, quick to read.