Mark Twain, Flaubert, Stendhal, Bach, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Andrew Marvell, John Donne, Maupassant, the good Kipling, Thoreau, Captain Marryat, Shakespeare, Mozart, Quevedo, Dante, Virgil, Tintoretto, Hieronymus Bosch, Brueghel, Patinir, Goya, Giotto, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, San Juan de la Cruz, Góngora—it would take a day to remember everyone….I put in painters, or started to, because I learn as much from painters about how to write as from writers.
— http://www.theparisreview.org/media/4825_HEMINGWAY4.pdf Hemingway, in the Paris Review Interview. This makes me feel like my comments on photographs in this blog aren’t cheating. Although how you can cheat in your own blog is beyond me.
