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I'm a fan of Ernest Hemingway work and specifically The Old Man and the Sea. I researched the relationship he had with the captain…

— Andy Garcia

As society evolves, people are interested in a new take on an old beloved story.

— Len Wiseman

I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he…

— Imelda May

“Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")”

— William S. Wilson

That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.

— Erica Brown

“A writer is a river. Everything flows and changes and we're never the same person as the one who wrote yesterday's story.”

— Aleksandr Voinov

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing…

— Lawrence Clark Powell

There are a lot of problems involved in comparative history. You never know if you're getting the comparisons weighted rightly, you're bound to dominate…

— Anonymous

Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he…

— Leslie Fiedler

I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

— Jim Harrison

“In reality, Hemingway didn't appeal to plumbers or roofers who read books; he was a rich man's writer, with the vocabulary and hunting instinct…

— Gerald Hausman

An old novel has a history of its own.

— Alexander Smith