Dictionary Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

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

— William Faulkner

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

“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

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

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

— Elizabeth Crook

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

— Todd Snider

“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 dictionary’s very flaws made the exertions and enthusiasm of its compilers real to his imagination. The vast array of words—entry words, definitions, examples—was…

— Shion Miura

I always envision myself being a Hemingway type.

— Lydia Hearst

“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

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

— Carson McCullers