Hemingway Quotes

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Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do… — Wystan Hugh Auden
You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations. — Jeff Bezos
I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf. — Andrea Bocelli
As Ernest Hemingway wrote, 'Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the… — Christopher Flynn
Hemingway was a jerk. — Harold Robbins
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us. — William Faulkner
Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water,… — Cyril Connolly
Hemingway was very sparse in his writing. Kris Kristofferson is like that. He can take four words and say it all. — Todd Snider
I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me started… — Lee Pace
Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone… — D. J. Enright
The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even… — Edward Abbey
I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug addicts but they… — Mike Tyson
The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are… — Mariel Hemingway
Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for. — Rex Stout
The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote — Rex Stout
Anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just 'talents.'… — Jack Kerouac
Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein. — Leslie Fiedler
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 isn't… — Leslie Fiedler
Altogether beautiful in the power of its feeling. As beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway. — Alfred Kazin
But phony, Hemingway was not, and poseur he was not. He did not shoot lions and leopards because he was searching for the answer to… — Robert Ruark

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