Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Lesley M. M. Blume

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Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Lesley M. M. Blume is a journalist and New York Times bestselling author. The daughter of a classical pianist and a journalist, she followed her father's footsteps into the newsroom, beginning her career at The Jordan Times in Amman and Cronkite Productions in New York City. She later became an off-air reporter and researcher for ABC News Nightline with Ted Koppel in Washington, D.C., where she helped cover the historic presidential election in 2000, the 9/11 attacks, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a myriad of other events and topics.

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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 achieve.

Lesley M. M. Blume

Hemingway himself and Hemingway's writing were both brilliant, brilliant cocktails.

Lesley M. M. Blume

Too many people realize at the end of their lives that they've taken for granted those who really love them.

Lesley M. M. Blume

Hemingway is a baby when he turns up in Paris, but he's an ambitious baby. And he has the talent. And he's there to stage his breakthrough. So many of the expats who were there at that time were there to do precisely that. It was an ambition-fueled town.

Lesley M. M. Blume

And so with Hemingway's writing, he famously wrote to one of his publishers - he said, you don't need a high school education to enjoy my writing. And it's going to titillate the masses. I mean, anybody can relate to it, but the style is so revolutionary that it will titillate highbrow critics, which it did.

Lesley M. M. Blume

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