He was one of the greatest American novelists and short story writers of all time. Hemingway produced most of his work from the mid-1920s to the mid-1950s.
He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He wrote novels and short stories about outdoorsmen, expatriates, soldiers and other men of action, and his plainspoken no-frills writing style became so famous that it is still frequently parodied.
(1899 – 1961)
– Ernest Hemingway Quotes –
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
~ Ernest Hemingway
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don’t cheat with it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Courage is grace under pressure.
~ Ernest Hemingway
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
~ Ernest Hemingway
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
~ Ernest Hemingway
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Man is not made for defeat.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
~ Ernest Hemingway
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
~ Ernest Hemingway
