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I am not a Hemingway aficionado.

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.

Science is not addressed to poets.

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 don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature.

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

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.

I'm out of the terse Hemingway school.