Ernest Hemingway, on writing:

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible.

There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

– Ernest Hemingway.

On this day in movie history - The Breaking Point (1950)

The Breaking Point

directed by Michael Curtiz,

written by Ranald MacDougall,

based on the novel To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway,

was released in the United States on October 6, 1950.

Music by Max Steiner.

Cast:
Ryan, Ralph Dumke, Guy Thomajan, William Campbell, Sherry Jackson, Donna Jo Boyce, Victor Sen Yung.

On this day in movie history - The Killers (1946)

The Killers

directed by Robert Siodmak,

written by Anthony Veiller, John Huston and Richard Brooks,

based on the short story by Ernest Hemingway,

was released in the United States on August 30, 1946.

Music by Miklós Rózsa.

Cast:

Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene, Vince Barnett, Virginia Christine, Jack Lambert, Charles D. Brown, Donald MacBride, Charles McGraw, William Conrad, Ernie Adams, Audley Anderson, George Anderson, Sam Ash, Frank Baker, Brooks Benedict, John Berkes, Edward Biby, Harry Brown, Phil Brown, Jack Cheatham, James Conaty, Jeff Corey, Gino Corrado, Noel Cravat, Oliver Cross, Rex Dale, Neal Dodd, Mike Donovan, Howard Freeman, Dick Gordon, Robert Haines, Michael Hale, Sam Harris, Harry Hayden, Mark Hellinger, Al Hill, George Hoagland, Jimmie Horan, Geoffrey Ingham, Kenner G. Kemp, Paul Kruger, Ethan Laidlaw, Mike Lally, Perc Launders, Nolan Leary, Vera Lewis, Jack Lomas, Therese Lyon, Frank McLure, Charles Middleton, John Miljan, Howard Negley, Garry Owen, Barbara ‘Red’ Powers, Beatrice Roberts, Wally Rose, William Ruhl, Wallace Scott, John Sheehan, Queenie Smith, Ann Staunton, Jack Tornek, John Trebach, Bill Walker, Milton Wallace, Gabrielle Windsor, Florence Wix.

Ernest Hemingway, on writing:

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

- Ernest Hemingway.

Born on this day – Ernest Hemingway:

Writer

July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961

Credits:

Books:

100 Years Of Fishing: The Ultimate Tribute To Our Fishing Tradition (2002); 3 Short Stories and 10 Poems (1923); 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology (2000); 50 Great American Short Stories (1963); 50 Great Short Stories (1952); A Clean Well Lighted Place (1926); A Farewell To Arms (1929); A Moveable Feast (1964); Across the River and into the Trees (1950); Alaska Stories (1995); An Alpine Idyll (1927); Articles for The Kansas City Star (1970); Autumn Light: Illuminations of Age (1978); bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Big Two-Hearted River (1925); Bullfighting, Sport & Industry (1974); Camping Out (1920); Cape Cod Stories (2002); Chicago Stories (1993); Christopher Hitchens (2017); Conversations with Ernest Hemingway (1986); Cross Country Snow (1924); Dateline Toronto (1985); David Bowie (2016); Death in the Afternoon (1932); Ernest Hemingway (2015); Ernest Hemingway on Writing (1984); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); Florida Stories (1993); Florida Stories (1993); For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940); Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); Gabriel García Márquez (2015); Graham Greene: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2019); Great First World War Stories (1930); Green Hills of Africa (1935); Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2013); Hemingway at Oak Park High (1993); Hemingway on Fishing (2000); Hemingway on War (2003); Hunter S. Thompson (2018); In Our Time (1925); Islands in the Stream (1970); J. D. Salinger (2016); James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations (2014); Jane Jacobs (2016); Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2022); John Lewis: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2021); Johnny Cash: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Jorge Luis Borges (2012); Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2018); Kathy Acker: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2018); Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2022); Kurt Vonnegut (2011); Learning to Live Finally (2005); Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker (2000); Los Angeles Stories (1991); Lou Reed (2015); Lust: Lascivious Love Stories and Passionate Poems (1994); Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2017); Men Without Women (1927); New Orleans Stories (1992); Nora Ephron: The Last Interview (2015); Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Oliver Sacks (2016); On Paris (2008); On Writing (1986); Philip K. Dick (2015); Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview (2014); Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2009); San Francisco Stories (1990); San Francisco Thrillers (1995); Selected Letters 1917-1961 (1981); Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century (1954); Southwest Stories (1993); Texas Stories (1995); The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000); The Complete Short Stories (1925); The Dangerous Summer (1985); The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War (1938); The First Forty-Nine Stories (1938); The Garden of Eden (1985); The Killers and Other Short Stories (1982); The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 1, 1907–1922 (2011); The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 2, 1923-1925 (2013); The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 3, 1926-1929 (2015); The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 4, 1929–1931 (2017); The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 5, 1932–1934 (2020); The Lost Generation Reader: Expatriate American Writers in Europe, 1900 – 1950 (2004); The Nick Adams Stories (1966); The Old Man and the Sea (1952); The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber & Other Stories (1936); The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces (1992); The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories (1936); The Sun Also Rises (1926); The Torrents of Spring (1926); The Ultimate Short Story Bundle (2020); The Undefeated (1965); To Have and Have Not (1937); Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); True At First Light (1999); Under Kilimanjaro (2005); Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2019); War: An Anthology (1969); Winner Take Nothing (1933); Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1957); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018).

Movies and television:

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (2002 / 2005 / 2007 / 2008 / 2010); A Curious World (2016); A Farewell to Arms (1932 / 1957 / 1966); A Teen-ager Takes a Look at Europe (1955); Abandoned Engineering (2020); Abrupt Ending (2014); Across the River and Into the Trees (2022); Adeus às Armas (1961); After the Storm (2001); Baby Shoes (2012); Best of Friends (1981); Bokser ide u raj (2007); Buick-Electra Playhouse (1959–1960); Calvin Klein: Obsession (1990); Captain Khorshid (1987); Carry Me Away (2013); Cat in the Rain (2011); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2016); Cheyenne (1956); Circle of Honor (2003); Climax! (1955); Democracy Now! (2013); Dieu a choisi Paris (1969); Diners, Drive-ins and Dives (2016); Duels (2016); Elefants blancs (2016); Ernest Hemingway, quatre mariages et un enterrement (2021); Ernest Hemingway's Out of Season (2014); Explained (2018); Fiesta (1971); For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943 / 1965); For Whom the Bell Tolls: Recording of an Opera in Progress (2016); From D-Day to Germany (1944); Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend (1989); Gifts Like White Elephants (2008); God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen (2005); Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 3 (1942); Hemingway (2021); Hemingway Unknown (2012); Hemingway: Winner Take Nothing (1998); Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962); Hills (2009); Hills Like White Elephants (2002 / 2017 / 2018); History of Swear Words (2021); Hollywood contra Franco (2008); Hormigas blancas (2020); I riassuntini (2018); Islands in the Stream (1977); Killarna - en far og seks syv brødre (2006); Kraft Theatre (1958); La France en face / Histoire immediate (2013); La ironía del dinero / Segment: Toros (1957); La Tragédie des Brigades Internationales (2016); Lauren Bacall, ombre et lumière (2017); Life and Times (2000); Little Sleep, Little Slumber (2024); Los asesinos (2006 / 2009); Lux Video Theatre (1957); Mia hara (1995); My Old Man (1969 / 1979); Njeriu kurrë nuk vdes (1961); Nochnoy ekspress (2006); Norman Mailer: The American (2010); Omnibus (1953–1954); Peta kolona (1973); Playhouse 90 (1959); Playwrights '56 (1955); Project Twenty (1963); Randy Writes a Novel (2018); Renaud: Les mots (2016); Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021); Robert Montgomery Presents (1955); Salinger (2013); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Secrets of War (1999); Soldier's Home (1977); Teledrama (1956); Television Theater (1955–1958); The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries (2008); The Breaking Point (1950); The Color of War (2002); The Devil's Den: A Nick Adams Story (2023); The Fifth Column (1960); The Gambler, the Nun and the Radio (1960); The Garden of Eden (2008); The Gun Runners (1958); The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002); The Killers (1946 / 1956 / 1964 / 2009 / 2013 / 2018); The Killers II (2013); The Leisure Seeker (2017); The Macomber Affair (1947); The Old Man and the Sea (1958 / 1990 / 1999 / 2021); The Reader (2008); The Sea (1958); The Sea Change (2006 / 2014); The Seven Lively Arts (1957); The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952); The Spanish Earth (1937); The Sun Also Rises (1957 / 1984); The Twentieth Century (1960); The Unknown War (1978); Therapy or Torture: The Truth about Electroshock (2019); To Have and Have Not (1944); Today Is Friday (2010); Ubice (2008); Un lugar limpio y bien iluminado (1991); Under My Skin (1950); Vrasësit (2014); Wave-189 (2016); Wemedge (2021); White Elephants (2012 / 2014); White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch (2022); Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990); Zabijáci (1990).

Ernest Hemingway, on listening:

I like to listen.
I have learned a great deal from listening carefully.
Most people never listen.

- Ernest Hemingway.