Wells Quote by Charles Bukowski

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

I always envision myself being a Hemingway type.

— Lydia Hearst

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

— Carson McCullers

I'm not a Hemingway scholar, so I've come across some surprises.

— Jack Hemingway

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

— Jim Harrison

I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.

— Elmore Leonard

Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt…

— Cyril Connolly

Hemingway's talent was so outsized, that I feel like I can forgive him a lot of his trespasses to have achieved what he did…

— Lesley M. M. Blume

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

— Rex Stout

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

I spent an awful lot of time with Hemingway. And Hemingway had a remarkable ability to reach very noble goals through sometimes ignoble means.

— Lesley M. M. Blume

I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he…

— Imelda May