Did I know him? Did I love him? You ask me that? I knew…

“Do you read them? Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald?" "Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men.”

— John Grisham

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

— David Guterson

The key for me with historical characters is they're interesting because they're human beings. A little bit of Hemingway goes a long way here,…

— Michael Hirst

“But writers and their woes: they couldn't be parted. Not for anything.”

— Naomi Wood

Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.

— Stephen King

“All right, said Nick. Let's get drunk. All right, Bill said. Let's get really drunk.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.

— A. E. Hotchner

Helpful to me over the years was some of Ernest Hemingway's writing, for example A Farewell to Arms. You have characters who speak Italian…

— Miroslav Penkov

“The Purdey was not a Purdey but a straight-stocked long-barreled Scott live-pigeon full choke in both barrels thai I had bought from a lot…

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

“The priest was good but dull. The officers were not good but dull. The King was good but dull. The wine was bad but…

— Ernest Hemingway

“We knew what we had and what it meant, and though so much had happened since for both of us, there was nothing like…

— Paula McLain

I don't think I have even achieved fame. Of course, Hemingway says that fame is death's little sister.

— Kinky Friedman

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

— Peter Heller

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez