Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
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.
When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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.
I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.
The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no question so baffling, that it can't be smoothly neutralized by dialing up the right attitude adjustment. Poor old Hemingway. If only he'd known.
Hemingway was a jerk.