Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

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-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Quotes

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Happiness, Intelligence
The writer�s job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

Writing
Courage is grace under pressure.

Courage
So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Morality
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Drinking, Talking
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

Sleep
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.
It's none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature.