I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.
Ernest HemingwayI donโt. I donโt want anybody else to touch you. Iโm silly. I get furious if they touch you.
Ernest HemingwayIโm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life acrossโnot to just depict lifeโor criticize itโbut to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You canโt do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you canโt believe in it. Things arenโt that way.
Ernest Hemingway