Almost Famous Quote by DanWakefield

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

— Carson McCullers

“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

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

— Truman Capote

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

— Irwin Shaw

“Today`s culture is unfortunately inseparable from economic and military power. A ruling nation can impose its culture and give a worldwide fame to a…

— Luis Buñuel

John Steinbeck is one of the most under-discussed and under-written-about of all American writers. He is way up there and should stand on a…

— Harry Belafonte

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

“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

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

— Jack Hemingway

[Hemingway] always used to bawl me out for including so much topical stuff. He always claimed that was a great mistake, that in fifty…

— John Dos Passos