Boat Quote by Andy Garcia

I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest…

— Dree Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was the author I drew inspiration from.

— Nelson DeMille

Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt…

— Cyril Connolly

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

— Peter Heller

The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a writer and…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I'm a big Hemingway and Salinger fan.

— Antoni Porowski

I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.

— Joshua Slocum

I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

— Jim Harrison

If I had to get lost in a fictional world? I would love to go with those Hemingway characters in 'The Sun Also Rises'…

— Blake Crouch

I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he…

— Imelda May

I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

— Denis Johnson

I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.

— Elmore Leonard