The good parts of a book may be something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life, and one is as good as the other.
—In a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1929
I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world, or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out thin.
—Ernest Hemingway to his mother in law, Mrs. Paul Pfeiffer, 1933.
Some great footage of Hemingway in his later years.



