43 Quotes by Jack Hemingway

For years my nickname was 'Bum.'

At the time of his death and the few years before, I was just starting to pull myself together and make a reasonably good living after years of dismal failure. I think he would be delighted to know that I've stuck to one thing and have done it well.

He was a physically imposing presence - 6 feet tall and very broad in the shoulders - and an imposing intellectual presence as well. Whenever he was in a group, he dominated it.

Food has always been a thing in our family.

I wanted to write a book about Hemingway's Paris, but a professor beat me to it. I suddenly realized other people were making a living off all the things that have to do with my family background so I've got one good story to tell and I'm telling it.

People ask me what I do, and I tell them, 'I'm a fisherman and a hunter.' They look at me like I'm lazy or crazy.

If you look at the 1960s, Hemingway was viewed on the basis of the myth of his lifestyles rather than viewing his work. Machismo was badly viewed; feminism was becoming a more noble cause. I think the feminists took him apart and assumed he mistreated women.

There is a new way of seeing him now. Because of that, there has been a lot of scholarship in Hemingway that is more thorough.

Frankly I never seriously read my father's books until after he died. Up to then, there had been no point.