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Hemingway, Ernest

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[Wikipedia] Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-s

Quotes by Hemingway, Ernest

“There is no lonelier man than a writer when he's writing, except the suicide.”

Hemingway, Ernest

Suicide

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“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.”

Hemingway, Ernest

On-writing

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“But, you say, there is very little conversation in this book. Why isn't there more dialoge? What we want in a book…

Hemingway, Ernest

Books

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“When George Plimpton asked Ernest Hemingway what the best training for an aspiring writer would be in a 1954 interview, Hem replied,…

Hemingway, Ernest

Fitness

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“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing…

Hemingway, Ernest

American literature

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“Let's drop the war.' 'It's very hard. There's no place to drop it.”

Hemingway, Ernest

War

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