Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.
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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.
Most writers have been influenced by Faulkner.
I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.
Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still.
I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.
I don't think I can pick apart how I was influenced by which author. But these were the authors whose books I went back to again and again when I was in high school and college, when I first started trying to write stories.
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.
It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there were Stephen King, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Richard Adams.
I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.