Ernest Hemingway once said, “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed” (Byrd, Lawler, and Wilson). Like many influential authors, Hemingway adamantly believed that good writing is bleeding one’s aspirations, regrets, and experiences onto blank pages. Because he believed that good writers must use their experiences as the basis of their works, the facts of his life are imperative. It is because of this that Ernest Hemingway’s fiction writing closely resembles his life experiences. His unconventional upbringing, journalism experience, and the time he spent overseas resurfaced in his most preeminent works of literature. Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. Oak Park is an upper …show more content…
Regardless of the amount of work Ed put into sustaining the family, Grace oftentimes verbally abused him. Additionally, she did not take into consideration his interests, but rather forced her own upon him. Because of this, Ernest believed that his mother was domineering and ultimately the source of the family’s dissension. This constant conflict caused tension in the Hemingway family, and led Ernest to have an extremely negative view of not only his mother, but all women, later in life. This developed in his writing seeing as he referred to women using derogatory, offensive …show more content…
Instead of going to college immediately after high school in 1917, he began writing for the Kansas City Star (Mammadov). This was his first real job in the journalism field, and he wrote mainly about crimes and war recruitment. It was here that he adopted his writing style, one that is commonly referred to as “minimalistic”. Following the “Star’s Style Guide,” Hemingway learned to write using short paragraphs, short sentences, and an active voice (Hemingway and Bruccoli 21). He believed that any good writer must write using these skills, and he continued to write his fiction stories in the same