52 Hemingway Quotes for You to Enjoy

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 knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know. Imelda May

Love Myself You Back About Inspiration He Knew True Idea Like Know Wrote Him Talking Always Ernest Hemingway Fronts Certain Certain Things Hemingway Comparing Keep Things

I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant. Ion Tiriac

Brilliant Shakespeare Tennis Written Am Were Stories Hemingway

I have never loved any writer as much as Hemingway. Italo Calvino

Writer Never Any Loved Much Hemingway

You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations. Jeff Bezos

You Better Adding Make Going Hemingway

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

Inevitable Though Something Never Suppose Felt Ernest Hemingway Influenced Hemingway

I don't want to go around like some kind of bleeding giant or whatever, or thinking I'm a big deal, because it doesn't help you do your work. I think people like Hemingway got into an awful lot of trouble that way. Jim Harrison

Work You People Trouble Big Whatever Think Thinking Way Giant Kind Some Bleeding Like Because Around Deal Got Big Deal Go Lot Want Your Help Hemingway Awful Awful Lot

Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't. Joan Didion

I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway. Joyce Carol Oates

Myself Writing School Way Faulkner High High School Both Hemingway Novels

After Stalin died, the Soviet Union began inching toward the world again. The ban on jazz was lifted. Ernest Hemingway was published; the Pushkin Museum in Moscow hosted an exhibit of the works of Picasso. Keith Gessen

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein. Leslie Fiedler

Thought Frail Married Stein He Almost Gertrude Stein Really Hemingway

Keep a copy of 'Islands in the Stream' by Ernest Hemingway on the left hand side of your desk. Keep Fitzgerald's 'The Crack Up' on the right. When you get stuck, pick them up and pretend that they are having a fight, like you used to do with your GI Joes. Lynn Coady

You Fight Stream Side Pretend Having Stuck Pick Like Islands Ernest Hemingway Hand Left Up Fitzgerald Crack Get Them Your Used Hemingway Keep Right Copy Desk

When I was young, I was a passionate reader of Sartre. I've read the American novelists, in particular the lost generation - Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dos Passos - especially Faulkner. Of the authors I read when I was young, he is one of the few who still means a lot to me. Mario Vargas Llosa

You did not disturb Hemingway before noon on Monday through Friday - he was in his office, writing the books that made the lifestyle possible. Michael Gerber

You Writing Made Before Monday Books Possible Disturb Through Lifestyle He Noon His Friday Office Did Hemingway

I'm probably better known for boxing with Hemingway than for anything I've written. Morley Callaghan

Better Written Known Boxing Than Anything Hemingway

In crime fiction, I cut my teeth on early Robert Parker, Elmore Leonard, John D. MacDonald, and Alan Furst. I always loved the writing of Hemingway and Faulkner. Cormac McCarthy's 'Border Trilogy' has been a huge influence; I think I read those novels four times. Nick Petrie

Writing Crime Think Crime Fiction Teeth Macdonald Faulkner Those Has-Been Border John Trilogy Parker Robert Read Always Been Huge Huge Influence Times Influence Fiction Loved McCarthy Cut Hemingway Novels Alan Four Early

They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform. Padgett Powell

Me Lose Lost Those Out About Paris Fact He Checking Got Were Review Stolen Stories Turns Hemingway Platform Nearly

I was 17 when I decided to write stories as big as cathedrals, overflowing with the kind of memorable and audacious characters Walker Percy, Ernest Hemingway and Saul Bellow created. Philip Schultz

Big Characters Kind Memorable Write Cathedrals Audacious Overflowing Ernest Hemingway Walker Stories Decided Created Hemingway Saul

Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly. Rachel Kushner

Admire Writers Like Most Him Read Lot Greatly Hemingway

I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers. Regina Spektor

The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote. Rex Stout

Key Better Glass Wrote Than Anything Hemingway Ever

Pablo Picasso, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Hemingway, Mel Gibson, Lou Reed, Norman Mailer, Vanessa Redgrave, Van Morrison - each is distinguished by controversies unrelated to his or her art; by many accounts, some of them are not nice people at all. Steve Erickson

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I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their books, who are brave and resourceful people embarking on exciting adventures, definitely shaped my inner self and nourished my love for the outdoors. Vladimir Putin

Love People Resourceful Books Definitely Embarking Characters Outdoors London Shaped Self Exciting Adventures Read Always Jules Ernest Hemingway Jack Brave Depicted Loved Avidly Nourished Who Hemingway Novels Inner Inner Self

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