"The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other."
-Ernest Hemingway
It is interesting to see what inspires writers to write. Be it what is going on in the world that they are currently living in, or what is going on in their own immediate lives, or even what is going on right inside their own heads. It is an interesting notion, and it shows exactly the kind of lives that these writers are living.
What kind of man was Ernest Hemingway? One can certainly gain good insight by reading The Sun Also Rises or any of his other works to see the life that this man lived, but it is only an outward extension of the man's mind. This goes for many writers out there: Henry James, Malcolm Lowry, Robert Browning, you name them. What were these men's muses? What caused them to write the masterpieces they did? How did they know how to express these thoughts in such a way, or did they really? Were these men tormented by the notion that they could not successfully express themselves outwardly? I suppose it's just one of those things that we can only speculate about.
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