Hiking Quote by Leslie What Download Open image “It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.” — Leslie What ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hiking Hilarious Stories Subtext
“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 Copy Share Image
When I admire a writer, it's for the recognizable palette - Hemingway's minimalism, the dialogue, those isolated bar scenes. But with each story or novel, he shows me something different within the framework he's built - like noticing that there's a chair in the corner I didn't see in another story. — Jill Talbot Copy Share
Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me. — Stephen King Copy Share
Hemingway was very sparse in his writing. Kris Kristofferson is like that. He can take four words and say it all. — Todd Snider Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Story, as I understood it by reading Faulkner, Hardy, Cather, and Hemingway, was a powerful and clarifying human invention. The language alone, as I… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
I think that sense of unreality inspired me to write the story within the book that [August] Brill tells himself, one of the stories… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The juxtaposition of words - the color, feeling, and sound of the words together - has as much to do with the story as… — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
Ghosts are a metaphor for memory and remembrance and metaphorically connect our world to the world we cannot know about. — Leslie What Copy Share Image
“The long distance hiker, a breed set apart, From the likes of the usual pack. He’ll shoulder his gear, be hittin’ the trail; Long… — M.J. Eberhart Copy Share Image
A lot of my climbing and hiking gear is all wool because I can wear it for a week straight and it doesn't smell.… — Jason Clarke Copy Share Image
“...we’re not even really hiking, more like meandering in cinematic light.” — Kristen Henderson Copy Share Image
The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand. — Frederic Lawrence Knowles Copy Share Image
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I believe that a healthy lifestyle isn't just a regular exercise routine or your eating habits, but a synergy of a healthy mind and… — Theo Rossi Copy Share Image
If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Toronto is actually way more fast-paced than L.A. - I find the fast-paced nature of Toronto a bit obtrusive. In L.A., I love getting… — Jordan Gavaris Copy Share Image
I was at Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco hiking when a boulder came hurling down the mountainside and smashed my left hand. When I… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image