Quotes About Ernest Hemingway

I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. de Maupassant. I've fought two draws with Mr. Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody's going to get me in any ring with Mr. Tolstoy unless I'm crazy or I keep getting better.

A stick hardened in the fire.

An Ernest Hemingway story is constructed, as he himself once described it, like an iceberg, with one-fourth above the surface and the other three fourths deep in the paper where it does not show.

Hemingway was a jerk.