Ability Quote by Lesley M. M. Blume

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'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

Ernest Hemingway was the author I drew inspiration from.

— Nelson DeMille

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

— Jack Hemingway

My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good books: 'the…

— Pete Hamill

I always envision myself being a Hemingway type.

— Lydia Hearst

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

— Elmore Leonard

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

— Charles Bukowski

Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt…

— Cyril Connolly

I'm a big Hemingway and Salinger fan.

— Antoni Porowski

Hemingway himself and Hemingway's writing were both brilliant, brilliant cocktails.

— Lesley M. M. Blume

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

— Truman Capote