American Quote by Arthur Phillips

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

— Jim Harrison

Ernest Hemingway was the author I drew inspiration from.

— Nelson DeMille

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

— Dashiell Hammett

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

— Anne Rice

Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.

— Italo Calvino

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

— Leslie Fiedler

John Steinbeck is one of the most under-discussed and under-written-about of all American writers. He is way up there and should stand on a…

— Harry Belafonte

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

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

— David Dellinger

“Today`s culture is unfortunately inseparable from economic and military power. A ruling nation can impose its culture and give a worldwide fame to a…

— Luis Buñuel

I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.

— Carson McCullers

As for the writers who have influenced me they are many. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flannery O'Conner, Carson…

— Joe R. Lansdale