The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

He believed that a writer should create an absolute truth out of fiction that feels so real it actually becomes a shared experience with the reader.

The Sun Also Rises in Valencia on his birthday, July 21, 1925, shortly after the Festival of San Fermín

wrote his first novel, how he turned imperfect reality into a near-perfect work of fiction.

“Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters.”

Cruise around by yourself and see what happens to you.”

Well, I suppose that we that live by the sword shall perish by the sword. Isn’t that literary, though?

“We want to lead our own lives,” I said.

“Oh, Jake,” Brett said, “we could have had such a damned good time together.”