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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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- “You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be…”Ernest Hemingway
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- “Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For h…”Ernest Hemingway
- “The first draft of anything is shit.”Ernest Hemingway
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Books by Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
A short novel, quick to read.