Killing Hemingway Quotes

“Perhaps there is more value in looking inward and asking why I need to have others agree with me.”
― Arthur Byrne, Killing Hemingway

“your times tables, it’s like a decoder”
― Arthur Byrne, Killing Hemingway

“Never had Teddy set down a book by Ernest Hemingway because of a passage so beautifully crafted that it needed to be savored and considered before moving on. Teddy”
― Arthur Byrne, Killing Hemingway

“Even William Faulkner said of Hemingway, ‘He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.’” Billy”
― Arthur Byrne, Killing Hemingway

“Okay, I’ll admit it was fair, but his other stuff is just so bland. It’s like a Dick and Jane book.” “A”
― Arthur Byrne, Killing Hemingway

“began”
― Arthur Byrne, Killing Hemingway

“William Faulkner said of Hemingway, ‘He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”
― Arthur Byrne, Killing Hemingway

“And in conclusion, the entire body of work was propped up by the journalists, editors, and New York publishing machine that adored the man and had the power to make anyone a star. Ernest Hemingway was not a genius. He was, at best, the literary equivalent of a boy band propped up by the adoration of masses of intellectually bankrupt sycophants. He was a fraud.”
― Arthur Byrne, Killing Hemingway

“Teddy took to it like a duck to a Disney film.”
― Arthur Byrne, Killing Hemingway

“Dad, it’s a degree in reading and making up things about the author’s intent that can’t be proved through scientific method. It’s for people who can’t do math. But I like books, and it will be fun not to have to think for two years.”
― Arthur Byrne, Killing Hemingway

“On a scale of one to really cool, pet rats fell just below tortoises.”
― Arthur Byrne, Killing Hemingway