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I did a lot of studying of great writers. I read that Hemingway rewrote 'The Sun Also Rises' 39 times.

Hemingway was a jerk.

I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.

I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.

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

I am not a Hemingway aficionado.

The publishing industry stopped having new ideas out of respect for the untimely death of Ernest Hemingway in 1961 and has been doing everything the same way ever since.

Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.

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

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.