“ Don't worry, she says. Ernest always attracted obsessives. You were only one of many. And secretly, sometimes, I think he was flattered. Nobody ever stalked Fitzgerald. Naomi Wood
“ Tis true what Hemingway says--if we're lucky enough to live our dreams in youth, as Ernest Hemingway did in 1920's Paris and I did with the Beat poets, then youth's dreams become a moveable feast you… Alison Winfield Burns
“ Good. Coffee is good for you. It's the caffeine in it. Caffeine, we are here. Caffeine puts a man on her horse and a woman in his grave. Ernest Hemingway
“ Do you read them? Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald?Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men. John Grisham
“ I libri le aprivano mondi nuovi e le facevano conoscere persone straordinarie che vivevano una vita piena di avventure. Viaggiava su antichi velieri con Joseph Conrad. Andava in Africa con Ernest Hemi… Roald Dahl
“ I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply? Ernest Hemingway
“ The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together. Ernest Hemingway
“ Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready. Ernest Hemingway
“ Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too. Ernest Hemingway
“ I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories. Elmore Leonard
“ I do not think I have ever seen a nastier-looking man... Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist. [on Brit poet Percy Wyndham Lewis] Ernest Hemingway
