William Faulkner: "Ernest Hemingway: he has no courage, has never crawled out on a limb. He has never been known to use a word that might cause the reader to c

William Faulkner: "Ernest Hemingway: he has no courage, has never crawled out on a limb. He has never been known to use a word that might cause the reader to check with a dictionary to see if it is properly used." Ernest Hemingway: “Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use."