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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.
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- “I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the st…”Ernest Hemingway
- “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”Ernest Hemingway
- “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”Ernest Hemingway
- “it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned s…”Ernest Hemingway
Fishing: more sayings
- “Sitting in a rocker never appealed to me. Golf or fishing isn't as much fun as working.”Colonel Sanders
- “The truth hurts sometimes. If we are going to be taught by God, the fisherman, we first need to be captured b…”Donald H. Calloway
- “I used to go fishing on Roa Island as a boy and it seemed a good idea to move there.”Dave Myers
Hope: more sayings
- “I hope that my daughter grows up empowered and doesn't define herself by the way she looks but by qualities t…”Isaiah Mustafa
- “I think one of the reasons all the comics I worked with dropped off the log so early, and a lot of them did -…”June Whitfield
- “So if you love me, let me go.And run away before I know.My heart is just too dark to care.I can't destroy wha…”Slipknot
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Books by Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
A short novel, quick to read.