Ambition Quote by Pete Hamill

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 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 spent an awful lot of time with Hemingway. And Hemingway had a remarkable ability to reach very noble goals through sometimes ignoble means.

— Lesley M. M. Blume

Ernest Hemingway was the author I drew inspiration from.

— Nelson DeMille

“Jack London and Ernest Hemingway, confidence swaggering into the storm: Man against Nature. Of all the possible conflicts, that was the one that was…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I'm a big Hemingway and Salinger fan.

— Antoni Porowski

“Being a good writer meant he could make a living and do as he chose. Being a great one would bring responsibilities and expectations…

— Nora Roberts

“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

“[about Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises] His characters are as shallow as the saucers in which they stack their daily emotions.”

— The New York Times

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

I always envision myself being a Hemingway type.

— Lydia Hearst

I am not a Hemingway aficionado.

— Margaux Hemingway