Hemingway in Love Quotes

“And then there was the loving letter from my loving mother that I carry next to my heart.” Ernest took his billfold from his hip pocket and extracted a tattered slip of paper that he read from: “‘Ernest, I have received the inscribed copy of The Sun Also Rises, which you sent to me. Although as your Mother, I am pleased to hear that it is selling well, you have the doubtful honor of having produced one of the filthiest books of the year. Surely you must know some other words besides damn and bitch. I love you dear and still believe you will do something worthwhile to live after you.”
― A.E. Hotchner, Hemingway in Love: His Own Story

“But you believed in me against those tough odds. I want you to know, Hadley, you'll be the true part of any woman I write about. I'll spend the rest of my life looking for you”
― A.E. Hotchner, Hemingway in Love: His Own Story

“It has been emphasized that I have sought death all my life. If you have spent your life avoiding death as cagily as possible, but on the other hand taking no backchat from her and studying her as you would a beautiful harlot who could put you soundly to sleep forever with no problems and no necessity to work, you could be said to have studied her, but you have not sought her. Because you know among one or two other things that if you sought her, you would possess her, and from her reputation you know that she would present you with an incurable disease. So much for the constant pursuit of death. She’s just another whore.”
― A.E. Hotchner, Hemingway in Love: His Own Story

“I once asked him if he kept journals or notes of any kind to supplement his memory. He said ‘no, always made things stick. Never kept notes or a journal. Just push the recall button and there it is. If it wasn’t there, it wasn’t worth keeping.”
― A.E. Hotchner, Hemingway in Love: His Own Story

“No writer know the future of literature beyond what he’ll write the next morning, if that.”
― A.E. Hotchner, Hemingway in Love: His Own Story