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

— Elmore Leonard

I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

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

I used to love reading when I was little, and then it became difficult and I didn't understand why. I thought, what a bummer,…

— Jewel

At school I was really heavily dyslexic, so I really struggled academically with reading and writing.

— Freya Ridings

I grew up loving books and stories. Reading became my favourite pastime, and you have to be a reader before you can be a…

— Sandra Brown

I had been very dismissive of popular fiction - in fact, I'd refused to read it. And then I started working on popular fiction,…

— Chris Pavone

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

— John Prine

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

— Truman Capote

I know a lot of writers who tell me they 'always' knew how to read. They can't remember a time before reading. And those…

— Kameron Hurley