“I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it…” — Ernest Hemingway

“I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.”

Defending deliberate restraint against critics who mistook stylistic choice for inability · Letter, 26 August 1940

About Ernest Hemingway

21 July 1899–2 July 1961

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on 21 July 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, a prosperous suburb west of Chicago, and died on 2 July 1961 in Ketchum, Idaho. He became one of the most recognizable writers of the twentieth century: novelist, short-story master, journalist, war correspondent, celebrity, sportsman, and, in his…

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