Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented. A. E. Hotchner More Quotes by A. E. Hotchner More Quotes From A. E. Hotchner 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. A. E. Hotchner limits done motivational 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. A. E. Hotchner sun school firsts 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. A. E. Hotchner payment matter said Why is it parents think they help their kids by pretending things are better than they are? A. E. Hotchner parent kids thinking 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. A. E. Hotchner flower writing two 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. A. E. Hotchner typewriters reading writing Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign. A. E. Hotchner each-day fields challenges When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women. A. E. Hotchner random i-am women people We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine. A. E. Hotchner think smile stars people
