Quotes from Jack Hemingway

Hatchery trout are like New Yorkers who live crowded together. Eventually the hatchery trout shove the wild trout out. They aren't used to congregating together and eventually they go crazy and disappear.

I was raised like a little soft French kid, if you want to know.

He drank standing up because he said, 'If you drink sitting down, you don't know if you will be... able to stand up.'

My father was my hero, both for the physical things he could do and for the values he taught me, about honesty and standing up for what you believe in. I never felt like I was living in his shadow.

For years my nickname was 'Bum.'

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

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.

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.

But one of the most important and lasting things my father taught me was a love of the outdoors and how to respect it. I have tried to pass that curiosity and respect on to my kids and to others.

I didn't do a lot of fighting as a kid. But I hit doors a lot.

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.

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.

I am 75, but I'm younger than he was when he died because I didn't live life as hard as he did.

My mother was a fine woman. But it couldn't have worked. Dad was such a macho guy and she was eight years older and becoming matronly.