ERNEST HEMINGWAY“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”
- Ernest Hemingway |
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ABOUT ERNEST HEMINGWAYErnest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American novelist and journalist, known for a gripping and direct literary style and credited with some of the most influential works in American literature. He was raised in Illinois, getting his first view of the rest of the world during World War I where he fought on the Italian Front and was seriously wounded. He later worked as a journalist and as a foreign correspondent, covering the Spanish Civil War, the Normandy landings, and the liberation of Paris as part of World War II. Hemingway loved Paris, having lived there as an expat in the 1920s “Lost Generation” community of artists and fellow writers. All of these experiences of course influenced his most notable works, including The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Hemingway did also try his hand at travel writing with Green Hills of Africa (1935), a story of his time on safari. The purity of nature, masculinity, and loss are recurring themes, often shown through bullfighting, hunting, and fishing. He loved to write short stories, and his story about an old Cuban fisherman, The Old Man and the Sea (1952) is a true classic. Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.
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GREAT QUOTES FROM ERNEST HEMINGWAY"Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day."
- Ernest Hemingway, as part of his 1954 Nobel Prize acceptance speech “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.." “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self." INTERESTING LINKS:
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