Books Quote by Elmore Leonard

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

— Truman Capote

I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest…

— Dree Hemingway

I read some older books when I worked at Barnes And Noble, like some of the American classics. I read a lot of Hemingway.…

— Bert Kreischer

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

I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me…

— Lee Pace

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

— Todd Snider

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

Ernest Hemingway was the author I drew inspiration from.

— Nelson DeMille

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

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

— Carson McCullers

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

— Charles Bukowski

I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff,…

— John Krasinski