Best Hemingway Sayings

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Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented. — A. E. Hotchner
Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign. — A. E. Hotchner
There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it,… — A. E. Hotchner
He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was… — A. E. Hotchner
[Hemingway] always used to bawl me out for including so much topical stuff. He always claimed that was a great mistake, that in fifty years… — John Dos Passos
It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as… — Stephen Fry
Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the… — Joan Didion
I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces… — Aleksandar Hemon
I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words. — Elmore Leonard
Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway. — Joyce Carol Oates
I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer. If I'm teaching… — Joyce Carol Oates
The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At… — Clive Owen
It has been said that Ernest Hemingway would rewrite scenes until they pleased him, often thirty or forty times. Hemingway, critics claimed, was a genius.… — James N. Frey
You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go… — James Thurber
Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a… — Pat Conroy
For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling,… — Ernest Hemingway
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph… — Roald Dahl
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” “Elton John?” “Close. Ernest Hemingway. In his own way, sort… — Kami Garcia
And that's when he finally tells me his name is Ernest. I'm thinking of giving it away, though. Ernest is so dull, and Hemingway? Who… — Paula McLain
We laughed over it, and Hemingway punched me in the mouth. — Woody Allen
We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good bed,… — Tobias Wolff
What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they? — Danielle Steel
I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in the chemistry department.… — Kurt Vonnegut
Deal with him, Hemingway! — James Joyce

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