Famous quotes containing the words hemingway and/or met:
“You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.”
—Ernest Hemingway (18991961)
“I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadnt got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful manners and I like most of the American voices. On the other hand I dont believe they have any God and their hats are frightful. On balance I prefer the Arabs.”
—Freya Stark (18931993)