Added Quote by Christopher Moore

I hated Hemingway. I liked Faulkner but he was a bore.

— Truman Capote

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.

— Ernest Hemingway

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 guess for me Hemingway is a lot like it is for others: he goes down well when we are young.

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Jim Harrison

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in…

— William S. Burroughs

Once, in an interview with 'V' magazine, I said that I preferred Fitzgerald to Hemingway. I think that Hemingway is an amazing writer, but…

— Dree Hemingway

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

Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.

— Stephen King

People have invoked the ghost of Hemingway quite a few times in writing about the book. I could get into sticky territory here if…

— Ron Currie Jr

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

— Elmore Leonard

“she wanted to know what American writers I liked. "Hawthorne, Henry James, Emily Dickinson…" "No, living." Ah, well, hmm, let's see: how difficult, the…

— Truman Capote