43 Quotes by Jack Hemingway

You might have to go through some smaller rainbows to get at the big fish, but they're in there.

I started reading the Carlos Baker biography of Dad but couldn't finish it. I had the impression I was reading about a guy who, well, just wouldn't be very nice to be around. I wish Baker could have known Dad because exactly the opposite was true.

We were out drinking and fishing one day, and somebody said to me, 'People are starting to make money off your name. You and your brothers should do it.'

My father had two personas: first, literary, and second, the way he lived. I've been brought up with all of this, but many other people have liked and admired his lifestyle.

Tennis parents and stage mothers should take note. The kid has got to want to do it, not just to please the parent, but for himself.

He's never portrayed as being funny. He was a very funny, happy, lively person. Fun to be around and exciting. He was my hero.

Stacy Keach was marvelous. He looked more like my father than anyone who had ever played him before.

I was always somebody's son or somebody's father.

The only thing that's really important is the stuff he wrote. That's what he cared about, and that's what's worth protecting. The myth and the man time eventually separates. But the work endures.