Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.

He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.

Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.

Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.

Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.

Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.

Why is it parents think they help their kids by pretending things are better than they are?