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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.

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

I am not a Hemingway aficionado.

Hemingway was a jerk.

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.

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

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

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.