Ernest Hemingway Quotes

The man who proved that less on the page means more in the reader

Hemingway spent his final years in Ketchum, Idaho, fighting depression, paranoia, and the physical toll of a lifetime of injuries and drinking. Electroshock treatments at the Mayo Clinic destroyed much of his memory, including his ability to write. On July 2, 1961, he died at his home. He was 61. He left behind a body of work that changed the English language. His iceberg theory, the idea that the dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water, became the foundation of modern minimalist prose. The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, and his short stories taught generations of writers that what you leave out matters more than what you put in.