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

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible.

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

Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.

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.

Hemingway was a jerk.

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 am not a Hemingway aficionado.