Top 235 Hemingway Quotes & Sayings

I'm not a Hemingway scholar, so I've come across some surprises.

You have to find your own shtick. A Picasso always looks like Picasso painted it. Hemingway always sounds like Hemingway. A Beethoven symphony always sounds like a Beethoven symphony. Part of being a master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own.

Hemingway's short story 'Hills Like White Elephants' is a classic of its kind. It illustrates Hemingway's 'iceberg theory,' which requires that a story find its effectiveness by hiding more than it reveals.

I'm out of the terse Hemingway school.

I would say just start writing. You've got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you think that perhaps could become your sound, too. I did that with Hemingway, and I thought I was writing just like Hemingway. Then all of a sudden it occurred to me - he didn't have a sense of humor. I don't know anything he's written that's funny.

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

Ernest Hemingway was the author I drew inspiration from.

I really, honest to God, didn't know what to read until I was out of college and living in Boston, and someone said, 'Well, why don't you read Hemingway?' And I thought, 'OK. I guess I'll try this Hemingway fellow.'

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

I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs.

I have never loved any writer as much as Hemingway.

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

I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.

Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.

Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.

I read some older books when I worked at Barnes And Noble, like some of the American classics. I read a lot of Hemingway. I fell in love with Hemingway's prose and with the way he wrote. I feel like he's talking to me, like we're in a bar and he's not trying to jazz it up and sound smart, he's just being him.

I'd say Ernest Hemingway would be a blast to get drunk with.

The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.

I think Hemingway's [book] titles should be awarded first prize in any contest. Each of them is a poem, and their mysterious power over readers contributes to Hemingway's success. His titles have a life of their own, and they have enriched the American vocabulary.

I hated Hemingway. I liked Faulkner but he was a bore.

Come on, man.... Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf. You can't kill yourself before you're even published.

And that's when he finally tells me his name is Ernest. I'm thinking of giving it away, though. Ernest is so dull, and Hemingway? Who wants a Hemingway?

From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

Hemingway and Saroyan had the line, the magic of it. The problem was that Hemingway didn't know how to laugh and Saroyan was filled with sugar.

Hemingway was a big influence - 'A Farewell to Arms,' though I disapproved of the later Hemingway.

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

It has been said that Ernest Hemingway would rewrite scenes until they pleased him, often thirty or forty times. Hemingway, critics claimed, was a genius. Was it his genius that drove him to work hard, or was it hard work that resulted in works of genius?

I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer. If I'm teaching a story by Hemingway, my endeavor is to present the story that Hemingway wrote in its fullest realization.

'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.

I have a graduate degree from Penn State. I studied at Penn State under a noted Hemingway scholar, Philip Young. I had an interest in thrillers, and it occurred to me that Hemingway wrote many action scenes: the war scenes in 'A Farewell to Arms' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' come to mind. But the scenes don't feel pulpy.

Hemingway was a jerk.

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

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

I am not a Hemingway aficionado.

One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar.

We laughed over it, and Hemingway punched me in the mouth.

Hemingway said: 'It don't come anymore.' So where did it go?

Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.

I always envision myself being a Hemingway type.

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

I grew up with Mark Twain, and we had the complete Hemingway at home, of course in German translation.

I guess for me Hemingway is a lot like it is for others: he goes down well when we are young.

I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.

Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a difficult concept to grasp. Hemingway didn't know he was Ernest Hemingway when he was a young man. Faulkner didn't know he was William Faulkner. But they had to take the first step. They had to call themselves writers. That is the first revolutionary act a writer has to make. It takes courage. But it's necessary

The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a writer and get away with it.

Mike Walker is the Hemingway of gossip.

The people who go the craziest when they hear the name 'Hemingway' are my English teachers!

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug addicts but they had fun. They were real people. They formed the culture of American literature. Hemingway admired Tolstoy, Tolstoy admired Pushkin, and Mailer admired Hemingway. It all flows down. The greats are all connected. One day I'm gonna write a book myself. The first chapter will be about what a rough deal my momma got. She believed in you guys and your society.

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

I liked Hemingway better before I began to be called 'Hemingwayesque.'

I'm a big Hemingway and Salinger fan.

Deal with him, Hemingway!

It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.

Once, in an interview with 'V' magazine, I said that I preferred Fitzgerald to Hemingway. I think that Hemingway is an amazing writer, but by being related to him, I had it in my head that I had to like him.

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

I remember that the single most vicious letter I ever read was the letter Hemingway wrote Scribners when they asked him to give a blurb for From Here to Eternity. It's there, in the Selected Letters for all to read, an example of a once great writer at his very worst. I doubt that he ever forgave Scribners for publishing James Jones in the first place. War, as Hemingway saw it, belonged to him.

The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote.