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

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

There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.

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

From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

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.