Alive Quote by Matthew Quick

“The stories Hemingway told, the life he lived, all of it ended with a squeeze of a finger on a trigger. What else could…

— Kamal Ravikant

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in…

— William S. Burroughs

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 sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.

— Stephen King

Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.

— William Faulkner

I am not a Hemingway aficionado.

— Margaux Hemingway

People have invoked the ghost of Hemingway quite a few times in writing about the book. I could get into sticky territory here if…

— Ron Currie Jr

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

— Atticus

My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without…

— E. L. Doctorow

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

— Jack Hemingway

“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

“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