“That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. They threw you in and told you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Having an attack of self-doubt about your writing ability? Step #1 - Tell yourself - 'I'm the best damn writer there is,… — Jonathan Maas Copy Share Image
I would say just start writing. You've got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you think that perhaps… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar. — Jack Paar 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
“But even now, a full century after he wrote his first school poem, scratched out in startlingly plain words on onion skin… — Clancy Sigal Copy Share Image
“In Dostoevsky there were things unbelievable and not to be believed, but some so true they changed you as you read them;… — Ernest Hemingway 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
I'm probably better known for boxing with Hemingway than for anything I've written. — Morley Callaghan Copy Share Image
“In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did not completely trust anyone.” — Ernest Hemingway 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
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke? — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“I even read aloud the part of the novel I had rewritten, which is about as low as a writer can get… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes). — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no… — Walter Kirn 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
“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
I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“If you had stars inside your brain cells, you'd probably understand what I am talking about.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
