Hemingway was a jerk.

I am not a Hemingway aficionado.

I'm a big Hemingway and Salinger fan.

I'm out of the terse Hemingway school.

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

I'm the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters.

I always envision myself being a Hemingway type.

I have never loved any writer as much as Hemingway.

Hemingway changed prose; so did Salinger and Nabokov.

The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote.

I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.

You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.

Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.

I liked Hemingway better before I began to be called 'Hemingwayesque.'

Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.

I'm probably better known for boxing with Hemingway than for anything I've written.

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

Wanted to write fiction since I was 11, since I first read 'In Our Time' by Hemingway.

'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.

The people who go the craziest when they hear the name 'Hemingway' are my English teachers!

I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.

One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar.

I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

I did a lot of studying of great writers. I read that Hemingway rewrote 'The Sun Also Rises' 39 times.

I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.

I grew up with Mark Twain, and we had the complete Hemingway at home, of course in German translation.

I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

If you're young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you're Hemingway. The next day you're nothing.

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.

You don't have to go fight bulls in Spain like Hemingway to write something great, or go off to war. It's right under your nose.

In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).

It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still.

You did not disturb Hemingway before noon on Monday through Friday - he was in his office, writing the books that made the lifestyle possible.

I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.

Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.

After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages - he believed that if you crumpled them, you'd be insane in a year.

Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.

I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me started on a number of writers, including Hemingway.

People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'

The publishing industry stopped having new ideas out of respect for the untimely death of Ernest Hemingway in 1961 and has been doing everything the same way ever since.

I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention.

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.

I was 17 when I decided to write stories as big as cathedrals, overflowing with the kind of memorable and audacious characters Walker Percy, Ernest Hemingway and Saul Bellow created.

If you need proof of how the oral relates to the written, consider that many great novelists, including Joyce and Hemingway, never submitted a piece of work without reading it aloud.

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