Bleed It Out

Best known for his works such as A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway, is a Nobel Prize winner who has impacted the world tremendously through his creative and insightful expression of self. Ernest was born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1899. He served in World War 1, which he says had a large impact on his style and content of writing. He was also well known for his many quotes that have changed the way young authors look at classical pieces. 

One of his well known quotes is “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” I genuinely enjoy this quote because I believe that writing should be a direct expression of the author. Writing should be directly from the author and something that they can take pride in knowing that it is a part of them for the public to appreciate. By putting all their heart and soul into a piece of work it allows the reader to convey the same emotions and feeling as intended by the creator. If all authors followed Hemingway’s mentality of expressing oneself without influence, we would have a richer culture and more diverse range of literature to savor.