Quotes by Hemingway, Ernest

Courage is grace under pressure. >>

I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and >>

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone l >>

Quotations about Biography

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they >>

Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, ex >>

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. >>

I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior F.B.I. -men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.

Hemingway, Ernest