Quotes About Hemingway Faulkner

#1. The best American writers have come from the hinterlands
Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.

Edward Abbey

#2. Bill and Hillary will spend Easter with her brothers Hugh and Tony and Roger Clinton. They have a family ritual at all holiday dinners. After they sit down, they hold hands, close their eyes, and get their stories straight.

Argus Hamilton

#3. I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.

Joyce Carol Oates

#4. There's not a European country the Jews haven't been thrown out of. When it happens that many times, it's not just persecution. THERE'S NO SMOKE WITHOUT FIRE.

Mark Collett

#5. If she looks like you, everyone will know you're her dad," Henry said, his voice perfectly level, his eyes solemn. "And that will make her happy.

Amy Harmon

#6. Story, as I understood it by reading Faulkner, Hardy, Cather, and Hemingway, was a powerful and clarifying human invention. The language alone, as I discovered it in Gerard Manley Hopkins and Faulkner, was exquisitely beautiful, also weirdly and mysteriously evocative.

Barry Lopez

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

Italo Calvino

#8. Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#9. Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Ralph Cudworth

#10. Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.

William Faulkner

#11. There are members of the London press who seek to antagonise me, deliberately.

Alex Ferguson

#12. The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's greatest alibi - 'We was robbed.'

Billy Evans

#13. If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.

William Faulkner

#14. Let your faith in the Universe deepen, purify and strengthen most on your troublesome, dark days. If you close your eyes in prayer, surrendering every problem and desire, you will find a way out without fail.

Pooja Ruprell

#15. As the style of Faulkner grew out of his rage
out of the impotence of his rage
the style of Hemingway grew out of the depth andnuance of his disenchantment.

Wright Morris

#16. Do not have Jesus Christ on your lips, and the world in your heart.

Ignatius Of Antioch

#17. Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

J.B. Priestley

#18. He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
(on Ernest Hemingway

William Faulkner

#19. A year after Hemingway died on the front page, Faulkner went off after a binge, as if dying was nobody's business but his own.

Alfred Kazin

#20. Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

Ernest Hemingway,

#21. I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful ... This is how it should be. This is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for hyperspace.

Terence McKenna

#22. It was a period when live TV was just starting and getting popular and they took it seriously too. Not so much like TV now. They did [Ernst] Hemingway and [William] Faulkner - and they're all wonderful artists and it just was very creative at that time.

Gena Rowlands

#23. If you look at any list of great modern writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, you'll notice two things about them: 1. They all had editors. 2. They are all dead. Thus we can draw the scientific conclusion that editors are fatal.

Dave Barry

#24. I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.

Carson McCullers

#25. I am just another blind man. I do not get the whole picture of what transpires in all places. I am blind and limited. I would be a fool to think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me.

Jim Butcher

#26. I used to fear living a life untouched by God, but now, for some reason I've gone back to being afraid of cement mixers.

Dana Gould