The surest way to get me to dislike something is by forcing it upon me. Unfortunately, that, was how I was first introduced to Hemingway all those years ago, back at school. Fortunately, I decided to pick up a copy of The Sun Also Rises, of my own volition, many years later. “From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality. That is why you write and for no other reason that you know of. But what about all the reasons that no one knows?” —Happy Birthday, Ernest Hemingway. Photo Credit John Bryson/Getty Images

The surest way to get me to dislike something is by forcing it upon me.

Unfortunately, that, was how I was first introduced to Hemingway all those years ago, back at school.

Fortunately, I decided to pick up a copy of The Sun Also Rises, of my own volition, many years later.

“From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

That is why you write and for no other reason that you know of. But what about all the reasons that no one knows?”

—Happy Birthday, Ernest Hemingway.

Photo Credit John Bryson/Getty Images

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