Ernest Hemingway Quotations - World of Biography


	Ernest, nobody is as male as all that. -as Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of F Scott, once chastised him.
	He was a genius, not so much in what he wrote as in how he wrote; he liberated our written language. -Martha Gellhorn on Hemingway’s style of writing.
	…kept his eyes open, all other senses alert, his subjects limited but whole, his objects in sharp focus, and his themes as universal as courage, love, honor, endurance, suffering and death. - Hemingway’s biographer Carlos Baker on his writing appeal.
	Something dreadful seems to happen to Hemingway as soon as he begins to write in the first person…He seems to lose all capacity for self-criticism and is likely to become fatuous or maudlin. -Critical comment towards Hemingway’s big-game hunting book, The Green Hills of Africa.
	…He’s an experienced journalist. He writes very good verse and he’s the finest prose stylist in the world. Ezra Pound, while recommending Hemingway to Ford Maddox Ford
	He has reduced the veil between literature and life, which is what every writer strives to do. Have you read A Clean, Well Lighted Place?…It is masterly. Indeed, it is one of the best stories ever written… -James Joyce, one of his friends wrote glowingly of A Clean, Well Lighted Place.
	He has produced what must be the only book ever written which makes Africa and its animal seem dull. - Prominent literary critic Edmund Wilson poked at Hemingway on his book Green Hills of Africa
	Hemingway’s gift is that he writes in the white spaces between the lines. - Aldous Huxley on Hemingway
	The son-of-bitch writes on water. Ben Hecht on Hemingway
	He was a gentlemen in a world that no longer had use for gentlemen. Anonymous