Bores Quote by Truman Capote Download Open image “I hated Hemingway. I liked Faulkner but he was a bore.” — Truman Capote ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bores Hated
I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“she wanted to know what American writers I liked. "Hawthorne, Henry James, Emily Dickinson…" "No, living." Ah, well, hmm, let's see: how difficult, the… — Truman Capote 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
I kind of dislike 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' but most of Hemingway in general, mainly because his stylistic shenanigans ruined so many young… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Once, in an interview with 'V' magazine, I said that I preferred Fitzgerald to Hemingway. I think that Hemingway is an amazing writer, but… — Dree Hemingway Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I like Hemingway and I like a lot Jewish writers (such as) Saul Bellow. — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
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“Is it - I'm not certain - possible to love someone if your first interest is the use you can make of him? Doesn't… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“…she, glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Redtail was a brave warrior. His loyalty to ThunderClan could never be doubted. I always relied on his judgment, for it bore witness to… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which,… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores. — Geoffrey Madan Copy Share Image
Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability. His specialty is rhythm songs which he renders in an undistinguished whine; his phrasing, if it can… — Jack Gould Copy Share Image
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be the most… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
