Hemingway Quotes · Page 2

I am not a Hemingway aficionado.

— Margaux Hemingway

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Morley Callaghan

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

— David Guterson

“Ernest Hemingway recognized that “the shortest [way to an] answer” is to stop talking and start “doing the thing.”

— Evan Sayet

“Like Hemingway said, the only thing that could spoil a day was people.”

— Nikki Sixx

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

— Naomi Wood

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

— Ion Tiriac

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

— Elizabeth Olsen

Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding…

— Malcolm Cowley

“Hemingway is there in Finca Vigía. Find out what he thinks of Castro. He’s a man dedicated to his art and has…

— Paul Vidich

“Hemingway suggested you write the truest sentence you know. I say write the falsest one you don’t know. This is fiction.”

— Jarod Kintz

People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am,…

— David Mamet

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Stop that!” Ghost Hemingway ordered. “It’s like teaching goddamned cats to walk on their back legs.” He sighed. “Standing eggs on end…

— Dennis Vickers

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

— Leslie Fiedler

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His…

— William S. Burroughs

I wanted to write a book about Hemingway's Paris, but a professor beat me to it. I suddenly realized other people were…

— Jack Hemingway

“We are not told [why the girl looks at the floor] – at least not explicitly. Where other writers of the same…

— into the willd

I think Hemingway's [book] titles should be awarded first prize in any contest. Each of them is a poem, and their mysterious…

— Sylvia Beach

Hemingway is a baby when he turns up in Paris, but he's an ambitious baby. And he has the talent. And he's…

— Lesley M. M. Blume

“Ornate language tended to unsettle him. Passages from nineteenth-century novels might glow like hot coals or squirm like heaps of snakes. In…

— Harry Dolan

Ernest Hemingway has been the most important influence on me as a writer. But at a certain point as a writer, I…

— Akhil Sharma

My whole thing was, as much as I was inspired by what my parents do, and growing up on film sets, watching…

— Dree Hemingway

“I thought back to Meg’s advice about Hemingway sentences—simple declarative statements that showed the truth and distilled the meaning. My first attempt…

— Laura Anderson Kurk

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?” -Ernest Hemingway”

— A.C. Bextor

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

— Kinky Friedman

“In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did not completely trust anyone.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.”

— Tiffany Madison

Hemingway himself and Hemingway's writing were both brilliant, brilliant cocktails.

— Lesley M. M. Blume

He [Ernest Hemingway] is gentle, as all real men are gentle; without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

— Marlene Dietrich

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

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

— Peter Heller

Hemingway was a big influence - 'A Farewell to Arms,' though I disapproved of the later Hemingway.

— David Dellinger

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

— A. E. Hotchner

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

— Dree Hemingway

When I was in prep school, an English teacher said to me, 'Hemingway, I expect more from you!' And I said, 'Why,…

— Jack Hemingway

I'd say Ernest Hemingway would be a blast to get drunk with.

— William Beckett

“War is a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead. —ERNEST HEMINGWAY”

— Harold G. Moore