Heart and soul Quote by Clancy Sigal

“And then along came Hemingway. What a thrill! He knew how to lay down a line. It was a joy. Words weren’t dull, words…

— Charles Bukowski

“He lives forever in his words, in his poems, and in his stories. An inspiration to many writers and poets all around the world.…

— Avijeet Das

“Hemingway, whenever he was stuck in his writing, would tell himself to write one true thing. A true sentence. Then, he would write another.…

— Kamal Ravikant

“In reality, Hemingway didn't appeal to plumbers or roofers who read books; he was a rich man's writer, with the vocabulary and hunting instinct…

— Gerald Hausman

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

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 will not be quoting Hemingway anytime soon, nor will I ever read another one of his books. And if he were still alive,…

— Matthew Quick

“Hemingway is my favourite writer, I'm just not the hugest fan of his writing.”

— Atticus

“I would give a hundred Hemingways for one Stendhal or one Benjamin Constant. And I regret the influence of this literature on many young…

— Albert Camus

Hemingway was very sparse in his writing. Kris Kristofferson is like that. He can take four words and say it all.

— Todd Snider

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

Hemingway, damn his soul, makes everything he writes terrifically exciting (and incidentally makes all us second-raters seem positively adolescent) by the seemingly simple expedient…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings