Top 8 Quotes by A. E. Hotchner

Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely

Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.

A. E. Hotchner

Motivational, Done, Limits

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

A. E. Hotchner

Kids, Thinking, Parent

A. E. Hotchner (2007). “The Boyhood Memoirs of A.E. Hotchner”

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

Matter, Said, Payment

A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.141, Da Capo Press

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.

A. E. Hotchner

School, Firsts, Sun

A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.3, Da Capo Press

He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.

A. E. Hotchner

Reading, Writing, Typewriters

A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.14, Da Capo Press

Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.

A. E. Hotchner

Challenges, Each Day, Fields

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.

A. E. Hotchner

Flower, Writing, Two

A. E. Hotchner (2010). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, p.11, Harper Collins