Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899–1961) was an American author 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, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. Three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.
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Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.
—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
I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
—Ernest Hemingway
Never mistake motion for action.
—Ernest Hemingway
You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
—Ernest Hemingway
But man is not made for defeat.
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
—Ernest Hemingway
Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.
—Ernest Hemingway
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.
—Ernest Hemingway
Topics: Books
I know only what is moral is what you feel good
after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
—Ernest Hemingway
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal
from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
—Ernest Hemingway
I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write and then I remember that it was always difficult and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.
—Ernest Hemingway
Topics: Endurance, Resolve, Perseverance
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
—Ernest Hemingway
He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.
—Ernest Hemingway
Life breaks us all, but afterwards,
many of us are strongest at the broken places.
—Ernest Hemingway
All thinking men are atheists.
—Ernest Hemingway
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