Did Hemingway Say It?
"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."
This quotation is most often attributed to Mark Twain, though a growing number of quotation aficionados have attempted to put it under Ernest Hemingway's pen.
On a visit to San Francisco in July of 1937, Hemingway told reporters: "Say, this is great! After frying in New York, stewing down in Florida and sweltering in Los Angeles this is something like summer weather. I can't for the life of me see why anybody would ever move out of San Francisco, particularly in the summer time."
This is the closest Hemingway ever came to saying that "the coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."
Posted on January 03, 2010 | One comment
Most likely said before Hemingway's time, this is usually attributed to Mark Twain, but I have seen that attribution questioned. Its hyperbole (I have to say, our "summers" are pretty cold) is characteristic of Twain.
