Margaux Hemingway Quotes

I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.

I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.

I was completely dumbfounded because not only am I a huge fan of David Simon, but I'm a huge fan of Philip Roth.

The people who go the craziest when they hear the name 'Hemingway' are my English teachers!

The truth is that the writers who most influenced me weren't people categorized as crime writers. I'd say I learned more from John O'Hara, who isn't much read today but whose short stories I really admired, and Hemingway, who I think has lasted pretty good.

I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.

I like Philip Larkin an awful lot; I really like his view on life, and I really connect to it.

Once, in an interview with 'V' magazine, I said that I preferred Fitzgerald to Hemingway. I think that Hemingway is an amazing writer, but by being related to him, I had it in my head that I had to like him.

Interviewing Hugh McIlvanney, I got to read lots of his stuff again. I'm a big fan of his writing.

I'd have liked to have been another Faulkner, of course.

I've liked Pete Gurney's writing always.

I quite liked Dostoyevsky when I was younger.

I always envision myself being a Hemingway type.

I have never loved any writer as much as Hemingway.

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive.

Got an hour or two? That's all it takes for one of my books.

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

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to the power of fiction when I was in my 20s.

I'm always interested in contemporary fiction.

I've been a fan of Jack Vance since before I was in high school.

I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.

I happen to think Martin Cruz Smith is very good.

Proust is a huge author for me.