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I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.

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

Hemingway was a jerk. I mean he was really a great jerk. He was a good writer, and he did all sorts of things that I would never have the courage to do, but I don't think I'd enjoy being in the same room with him. He's not my kind of person.

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

A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

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.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

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

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.

I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me started on a number of writers, including Hemingway.