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.
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I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.
I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J. D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader.
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 remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.
I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, you should read To Kill a Mockingbird.'
I did a lot of studying of great writers. I read that Hemingway rewrote 'The Sun Also Rises' 39 times.
I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.
I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.
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.