Quotes for Public Speakers (No. 22) – Ernest Hemingway

Posted on 11/03/2010 by

Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961) American Author and Journalist

“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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