Quotes About Reading Hemingway

#1. Easy writing makes hard reading.

Ernest Hemingway,

#2. I have a hard time finding something that I really enjoy reading, but I read 'The Great Gatsby' every summer.

Dree Hemingway

#3. If you need proof of how the oral relates to the written, consider that many great novelists, including Joyce and Hemingway, never submitted a piece of work without reading it aloud.

Frank Delaney

#4. He was reading with his mouth open, and he didn't hear me walk across the porch and sit down on the railing opposite his chair.
I kicked his chair with the toe of my shoe. "Stop reading, Mac," I said. "Put down that book. Entertain me." He was reading Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.

J.D. Salinger

#5. Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

Ernest Hemingway,

#6. I was trying to learn to write stories, and was reading O'Hara and Hemingway as a carpenter might look at an excellent house someone else has built.

Andre Dubus

#7. We must go to such towns as Bristol, York, and Norwich.

George Edmund Street

#8. Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?

Laurell K. Hamilton

#9. Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.

Robert Reed

#10. In Dostoevsky there were things unbelievable and not to be believed, but some so true they changed you as you read them; frailty and madness, wickedness and saintliness, and the insanity of gambling were there to know as you knew the landscape and the roads in turgenev

Ernest Hemingway,

#11. I knew that now, reading it in the oversensitized state of my mind after much too much brandy, I would remember it somewhere, and afterwards it would seem as though it had really happened to me. I would always have it. That was another good thing you paid for and then had.

Ernest Hemingway,

#12. Murph took his shot and dropped the bastard right out of the tree. then he stood. "I'm an American soldier, you son of a bitch.

Dana Marton

#13. No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.

James Bryce

#14. I like reading ... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.

Andrea Bocelli

#15. The problem was to love people, try to serve them, without wanting anything from them. I was a long way from solving that one.

Ross Macdonald

#16. He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.

A. E. Hotchner

#17. In truly good writing no matter how many times you read it you do not know how it is done. That is beacause there is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dis-sect out. It continues and it is always valid. Each time you re-read you see or learn something new.

Ernest Hemingway,

#18. Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't.

Joan Didion

#19. In those days, there was no money to buy books.

Ernest Hemingway,

#20. 'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.

Elizabeth Olsen

#21. Congregations shaped by the Scriptures generally have preachers who are shaped by the Scriptures.

John Ortberg

#22. Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.
Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.

Ernest Hemingway,

#23. Easy reading is hard writing,

Ernest Hemingway,

#24. Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#25. 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.

Lee Pace

#26. 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

#27. I don't criticize weight training - as long as it is not a substitute for aerobic training.

Kenneth H. Cooper

#28. It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice.

Karl Landsteiner

#29. I'm always reading books - as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

Ernest Hemingway,

#30. Winter trailed her fingers along her harness and sang to herself, The Earth is full tonight, tonight, and the wolves all howl, aa-ooooooooooh ...

Marissa Meyer