--- title: "5 Hemingway Quotes By Jack Hemingway" description: "5 Hemingway quotes by Jack Hemingway. Plus more from Jack Hemingway and more Hemingway sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/651/jack-hemingway-15377_book_i-wanted-to-write-a-book-about-hemingway_439829.jpg" --- > [I wanted to write a book about Hemingway's Paris, but a professor beat me to it. I suddenly realized other people were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/i-wanted-to-write-a-book-about-hemingway-s-paris-but-a-professor-beat/) [Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/651/jack-hemingway-15377_book_i-wanted-to-write-a-book-about-hemingway_439829.jpg) > [When I was in prep school, an English teacher said to me, 'Hemingway, I expect more from you!' And I said, 'Why,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/when-i-was-in-prep-school-an-english-teacher-said-to-me-hemingway-i/) [Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92d/jack-hemingway-15377_english-teacher_when-i-was-in-prep-school-an-english-tea_1710221.jpg) > [There is a new way of seeing him now. Because of that, there has been a lot of scholarship in Hemingway that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/there-is-a-new-way-of-seeing-him-now-because-of-that-there-has-been-a/) [Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e59/jack-hemingway-15377_more_there-is-a-new-way-of-seeing-him-now-bec_1743119.jpg) > [If you look at the 1960s, Hemingway was viewed on the basis of the myth of his lifestyles rather than viewing his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/if-you-look-at-the-1960s-hemingway-was-viewed-on-the-basis-of-the/) [Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/973/jack-hemingway-15377_feminism_if-you-look-at-the-1960s-hemingway-was-v_2158854.jpg) > [I'm not a Hemingway scholar, so I've come across some surprises.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/i-m-not-a-hemingway-scholar-so-i-ve-come-across-some-surprises/) [Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6b/jack-hemingway-15377_come_i-m-not-a-hemingway-scholar-so-i-ve-come_2690298.jpg) ## Other authors on Hemingway ## More by Jack Hemingway > [I'm not a furniture person. You sit on the stuff, sleep on it, make love on it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/i-m-not-a-furniture-person-you-sit-on-the-stuff-sleep-on-it-make-love/) [Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/) > [People ask me what I do, and I tell them, 'I'm a fisherman and a hunter.' They look at me like I'm lazy or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/people-ask-me-what-i-do-and-i-tell-them-i-m-a-fisherman-and-a-hunter/) [Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/) > [I know he wanted me to love fishing and hunting, and I believe that he deliberately set about to make me want to do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/i-know-he-wanted-me-to-love-fishing-and-hunting-and-i-believe-that-he/) [Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/) > [At the time of his death and the few years before, I was just starting to pull myself together and make a reasonably good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/at-the-time-of-his-death-and-the-few-years-before-i-was-just-starting/) [Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/) > [He's never portrayed as being funny. He was a very funny, happy, lively person. Fun to be around and exciting. He was my hero.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/he-s-never-portrayed-as-being-funny-he-was-a-very-funny-happy-lively/) [Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/) > [My mother, along with Papa's other eventual wives - Pauline, Marty Gelhorn, Mary Welch - they all, at one time or another, no matter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/my-mother-along-with-papa-s-other-eventual-wives-pauline-marty/) [Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/) > [It's hard to think of your parents as lovers. You know you got here somehow, but it's hard to visualize.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/it-s-hard-to-think-of-your-parents-as-lovers-you-know-you-got-here/) [Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/) > [I wanted to write a book about Hemingway's Paris, but a professor beat me to it. I suddenly realized other people were making a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/i-wanted-to-write-a-book-about-hemingway-s-paris-but-a-professor-beat/) [Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/) > [I was proud of Papa for his sports.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/i-was-proud-of-papa-for-his-sports/) [Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/) > [He was a physically imposing presence - 6 feet tall and very broad in the shoulders - and an imposing intellectual presence as well.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/he-was-a-physically-imposing-presence-6-feet-tall-and-very-broad-in/) [Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/) > [My father had two personas: first, literary, and second, the way he lived. I've been brought up with all of this, but many other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/my-father-had-two-personas-first-literary-and-second-the-way-he-lived/) [Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/) > [Frankly I never seriously read my father's books until after he died. Up to then, there had been no point.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/frankly-i-never-seriously-read-my-father-s-books-until-after-he-died/) [Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/) > [You might have to go through some smaller rainbows to get at the big fish, but they're in there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/you-might-have-to-go-through-some-smaller-rainbows-to-get-at-the-big/) [Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/) > [Food has always been a thing in our family.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/food-has-always-been-a-thing-in-our-family/) [Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/) > [We were out drinking and fishing one day, and somebody said to me, 'People are starting to make money off your name. You and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/we-were-out-drinking-and-fishing-one-day-and-somebody-said-to-me/) [Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hemingway/jack-hemingway/#itemlist", "name": "5 Hemingway Quotes By Jack Hemingway", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I wanted to write a book about Hemingway's Paris, but a professor beat me to it. 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