Being true Quote by John Dos Passos

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

“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

“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

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

— Todd Snider

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

— Atticus

Hemingway's talent was so outsized, that I feel like I can forgive him a lot of his trespasses to have achieved what he did…

— Lesley M. M. Blume

“Hemingway suggested you write the truest sentence you know. I say write the falsest one you don’t know. This is fiction.”

— Jarod Kintz

“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." (on Ernest Hemingway”

— William Faulkner

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

— Carson McCullers

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