"That is what we are supposed to..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
More by Ernest Hemingway
“I am like a blind pig when I work.”
“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”
“But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.”
More on Creation
“A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. For, although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all is similar and single.”
“History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.”
“The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.”