Putnam, Thomas. "Hemingway on War and Its Aftermath". The National Archives. Consultado el 30 de noviembre de 2011 "When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you ... Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to you."
«Ernest Hemingway The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 Banquet Speech». The Nobel Foundation. Consultado el 10 de diciembre de 2009. «Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.»
«The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954». The Nobel Foundation. Consultado el 7 de marzo de 2010. «his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style.»
«"The Sun Also Rises"». The New York Times. 31 de octubre de 1926. Consultado el 30 de noviembre de 2011. «No amount of analysis can convey the quality of The Sun Also Rises. It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that puts more literary English to shame.»
«John Irving: By the Book», interview with the author, The New York Times, 7 de junio de 2012 (2012 Sunday Book Review del 10 de junio de 2012). Consultado el 11 de junio de 2012.