A. E. Hotchner Quotes

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An Ernest Hemingway story is constructed, as he himself once described it, like an iceberg, with one-fourth above the surface and the other three fourths deep in the paper where it does not show.

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Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.

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From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

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Why is it parents think they help their kids by pretending things are better than they are?

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There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.

A. E. Hotchner

A. E. Hotchner

A. E. Hotchner

Born: June 28, 1920

Died: February 15, 2020 (aged 99)

Bio: Aaron Edward "A.E." Hotchner was an American editor, novelist, playwright and biographer.

Known for:

Hemingway in Love: His Own Story (2015)
Papa Hemingway (1955)
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz (1982)

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