Early Quote by Joan Didion

“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

Wanted to write fiction since I was 11, since I first read 'In Our Time' by Hemingway.

— Peter Heller

In middle school I wrote a paper on Hemingway and none of the sentences had more than five words.

— Elizabeth Crook

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

— Elmore Leonard

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

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

— Jack Hemingway

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

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Todd Snider

“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

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