“I’m a good novelist and I’ll get better. I’ve found my calling and if I have my way I’ll be turning out books for the next half-century, books that will blow people away. But right now all I want is to be read.”
The editor had become the number-one topic at every Hamptons dinner party, where people gossiped about his temper, his flashy clothes, about the gun he supposedly keeps in his desk...
"In Hemingway, to suffer or to cause suffering is not an unfortunate fatality of the human condition: It is the test through which man transcends his miserable circumstances and wins moral greatness"
