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Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see…
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
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Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.
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You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate…
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the…
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them…
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,…
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I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer,…
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come…
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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…
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You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.
— Jeff Bezos
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I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.
— Andrea Bocelli
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As Ernest Hemingway wrote, 'Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry…
— Unknown Author
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Hemingway was a jerk.
— Harold Robbins
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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.
— William Faulkner
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Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine…
— Cyril Connolly
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Hemingway was very sparse in his writing. Kris Kristofferson is like that. He can take four words and say it all.
— Todd Snider
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I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader…
— Lee Pace
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Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can…
— D. J. Enright
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The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of…
— Edward Abbey
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I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug…
— Mike Tyson
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