On Heaven: “To me a heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on 9 different floors and one house would be fitted up with special copies of the Dial printed on soft tissue and kept in the toilets on every floor and in the other house we would use the American Mercury and the New Republic.”

On Depression: “That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist’s Reward.”

On Writing: “That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.”

On the Past: “Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt use it - don’t cheat with it.”

- Ernest Hemingway to F. Scott Fitzgerald

10:36 am  •  19 February 2012  •  1 note