I'm probably better known for boxing with Hemingway than for anything I've written.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
I'm the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters.
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.
I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.
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.'
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.
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.
People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'
I am not a Hemingway aficionado.