“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at the typewriter and bleed.”
One of Hemingway’s most acclaimed works, A Moveable Feast, only exists because he once left a suitcase in Paris, France. Hemingway wrote the book later in life after he stayed at the Ritz Hotel in Paris in 1956. While there, he was reminded that he’d left a steamer trunk (made for him by Louis Vuitton) in the hotel’s basement in 1930. 26 years prior!
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