When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.
In order to write about life first you must live it.
The best writing is certainly when you are in love
No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.
Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.