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Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

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've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

If you're young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you're Hemingway. The next day you're nothing.

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.

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

Hemingway was a jerk.