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1 " Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a difficult concept to grasp. Hemingway didn't know he was Ernest Hemingway when he was a young man. Faulkner didn't know he was William Faulkner. But they had to take the first step. They had to call themselves writers. That is the first revolutionary act a writer has to make. It takes courage. But it's necessary "
― Pat Conroy , My Losing Season: A Memoir
2 " I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM. "
― Tiffany Madison
3 " The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village. "
― Roald Dahl , Matilda
4 " Fiction cannot betray the truth. Though it must try" ...As said by Ernest Hemingway in " Blast" ...The first short story in " Bullet" . "
5 " Fiction cannot betray the truth. Though it must try," Ernest Hemingway in " Blast" . "
6 " 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 take wherever you go--youthful love remains the repast plentiful; exquisite, substantive and good. You can live on happy memories. Eat of them forever. "
― Alison Winfield-Burns , Ivy League Bohemians (A Girl Among Boys): Bliss Book of Columbia University's Pariah Artists
7 " I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention. "
