NOBEL prize winner Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) is one of America’s greatest writers. His economical and understated style – which he termed the iceberg theory – had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. If you don’t know much about Hemingway then these short quotes from some of his most famous books might show you why you should pick up one of his novels.
“He remembered the time he had hooked one of a pair of marlin. The male fish always let the female fish feed first and the hooked fish, the female, made a wild, panic-stricken, despairing fight that (1952)
