Hemingway Quotes

I`m a reader, you know. I was corrupted by Faust. And Shakespeare. And Proust. And Hemingway. But mostly I was corrupted by Dylan Thomas. Most people see me as a rake, womanizer, boozer and purchaser of large baubles. I`m all those things depending on the prism and the light. But mostly I`m a reader. Give me Agatha Christie for an hour and I`m happy as a clam. The house in Celigny some day will cave in under its own weight from the books. I hope I`m there when it does. One hundred six years old. Investigating the newest thriller from Le Carré or a new play from Tennessee Williams.

From Ernest Hemingway`s stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

To compare me with Goya is a nonsense. Critics speak of Goya because they don`t know anything about Quevedo, Theresa of Avila, the picaresque literature, Galdòs, (Ramón del Valle-Inclán) and others . . . Today`s culture is unfortunately inseparable from economic and military power. A ruling nation can impose its culture and give a worldwide fame to a second-rate writer like (Ernest Hemingway). (John Steinbeck) is important due to American guns. Had (John Dos Passos) and (William Faulkner) been born in Paraguay or in Turkey, who`d read them?

Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn`t. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.

I don`t know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn`t hurt the book.

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

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

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

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

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 isn`t yet historical.

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