Dree Hemingway Quotes

Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing. So, reading Tolstoy several times - 'War and Peace,' 'The Kreutzer Sonata' - all those were really important to me.

You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.

Russian literature got me interested in what literature means.

That complete statement which is literature.

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never seemed to understand my English teacher's interpretations of what we read.

I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J. D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader.

The writer studies literature, not the world.

I'm not that well-versed in literary theory - I don't know what it is.

If people aren't creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize.

In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.

I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer. If I'm teaching a story by Hemingway, my endeavor is to present the story that Hemingway wrote in its fullest realization.

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

There's no literary merit in my books.

I think even great writers only write two books that you might like. When I think of my touchstone writers like Saul Bellow, I think of 'Henderson the Rain King.' With Don DeLillo, I think of 'Libra.'

Take Jonathan Franzen's work: it's just old wine in new bottles. They say he's the Tolstoy of the digital age, but there can only be a Tolstoy of the Tolstoyan age.

Your basic, well-made novel by Ian McEwan or Jonathan Franzen just bores me silly.

"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

Shakespeare didn't work at all for me.

Faulkner was the first novelist I read with pen and paper in hand because his technique stunned me.

I did a lot of studying of great writers. I read that Hemingway rewrote 'The Sun Also Rises' 39 times.