Balls Quote by Ernest Hemingway

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

— Elmore Leonard

“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

“But even now, a full century after he wrote his first school poem, scratched out in startlingly plain words on onion skin paper with…

— Clancy Sigal

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 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

“[About Ernest Hemingway] He’s a peach of a fellow and absolutely first-rate.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— Jack Hemingway

I kind of dislike 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' but most of Hemingway in general, mainly because his stylistic shenanigans ruined so many young…

— Christopher Moore

“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

“Ornate language tended to unsettle him. Passages from nineteenth-century novels might glow like hot coals or squirm like heaps of snakes. In fact, he…

— Harry Dolan

I'm a big Hemingway and Salinger fan.

— Antoni Porowski

I used to read a lot of Steinbeck, and I admired Roger Miller and Bob Dylan.

— John Prine