Hemingway Quotes

98 Hemingway quotes by 78 unique authors

You have to find your own shtick. A Picasso always looks like Picasso painted it. Hemingway always sounds like Hemingway. A Beethoven symphony always sounds… — Hugh Jackman
From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters. — Nadine Gordimer
I learned from #‎ Hemingway that you could be a #‎ writer and get away with it. — Hunter S. Thompson
Hemingway describes literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other. — John Updike
I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would… — Regina Spektor
The funniest novel you've never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially to a certain… — Blake Bailey
Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home. — William Faulkner
Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the… — William S. Burroughs
I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there. — Jim Harrison
A year after Hemingway died on the front page, Faulkner went off after a binge, as if dying was nobody's business but his own. — Alfred Kazin
The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it. — Elizabeth Olsen
Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to… — James Rollins
My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark… — Debbie Macomber
As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American writing going back to James Fennimore Cooper… — Tim Cahill
I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell. — Aravind Adiga
Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it. — David Guterson
The people who go the craziest when they hear the name 'Hemingway' are my English teachers! — Dree Hemingway
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 Hemingway.… — Dree Hemingway
My whole thing was, as much as I was inspired by what my parents do, and growing up on film sets, watching that made me… — Dree Hemingway
Once, in an interview with 'V' magazine, I said that I preferred Fitzgerald to Hemingway. I think that Hemingway is an amazing writer, but by… — Dree Hemingway
I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which… — John Krasinski
It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree’s writing.… — Robert Silverberg
If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a… — Adam Haslett
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the… — A. E. Hotchner
From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was… — A. E. Hotchner

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