Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy. — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
“Do you read them? Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald?" "Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men.” — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“Hemingway is my favourite writer, I'm just not the hugest fan of his writing.” — Atticus Copy Share Image
“You may not believe this. No one believes this, but it is true.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke? — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Come on, man… Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf. You can't kill yourself before you're even published. — Paul Giamatti Copy Share Image
“Did I know him? Did I love him? You ask me that? I knew him like you know nobody in the world,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Hemingway and Saroyan had the line, the magic of it. The problem was that Hemingway didn't know how to laugh and Saroyan… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“The priest was good but dull. The officers were not good but dull. The King was good but dull. The wine was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still. — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
Kat Stratford: Romantic? Hemingway? He was an abusive, alcoholic misogynist who squandered half of his life hanging around Picasso trying to nail… — 10 Things I Hate About You Copy Share Image
“Never be daunted in public' was an early Hemingway phrase that had more than once bolstered me in my timid twenties. I… — Jenni Ferrari-Adler Copy Share Image
There's a great book about that, "The Breaking Point" by Stephen Koch . It won't improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway. — George Packer Copy Share Image
The key for me with historical characters is they're interesting because they're human beings. A little bit of Hemingway goes a long… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
When I admire a writer, it's for the recognizable palette - Hemingway's minimalism, the dialogue, those isolated bar scenes. But with each… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
I read some older books when I worked at Barnes And Noble, like some of the American classics. I read a lot… — Bert Kreischer Copy Share Image
Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
It was a period when live TV was just starting and getting popular and they took it seriously too. Not so much… — Gena Rowlands Copy Share Image
“But then we did not think ever of ourselves as poor. We did not accept it. We thought we were superior people… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“At a conservative estimate, one million dollars will be spent by American readers for this book [For Whom the Bell Tolls]. They… — Commonweal Copy Share Image
“Redwing had read somewhere that one of his favourite writers, Ernest Hemingway, had been asked what was the best training for a… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“He remembered the time he had hooked one of a pair of marlin. The male fish always let the female fish feed… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
What's impossible not to notice, though - it's all around us - is the diminution of American prose: How pedestrian it has… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who… — James T. Farrell Copy Share Image
“The power of literature, I've always thought, lies in how willful the act of making it is. As such, I've never bought… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“When he returned to Florida in the early part of 1939, Hemingway took his boat the Pilar across the Straits of Florida… — Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“The blue-backed notebooks, the two pencils and the pencil sharpener (a pocket knife was too wasteful) the marble-topped tables, the smell of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“If the bulls were allowed to increase their knowledge as the bullfighter does, and if those bulls which are not killed in… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Alcoholics build defenses like the Dutch build dikes. I spent the first twelve years or so of my married life assuring myself… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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