I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.
Ernest HemingwayOne battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.
Ernest HemingwayI was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced.
Ernest HemingwayWhat I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and lots of times they don't even know they have it โ that's in the first reader for squares โ is, no matter how they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.
Ernest Hemingway