good life as good writing from Hemingway says

He believed a good life was built the same way as good writing.

Show up early.
Pay attention.
Don’t cheat the work.
For Ernest Hemingway, the page and the world were inseparable. The fishing trip mattered. The conversation mattered. The quiet mornings mattered. All of it fed the sentence.
This is the Hemingway legacy, not myth, not bravado, but a lifelong commitment to doing things all the way.

彼は良い人生は良い文章と同じ方法で築かれると信じていた。
早く映し出して。
注意深く。
その仕事をごまかさないで。
アーネスト・ヘミングウェイにとって、ページと世界は切り離せないものだった。 釣り旅行は大事だ。 会話は重要だ。 静かな朝が大事。 そのすべてを文章に注いだ。
これはヘミングウェイの遺産であり、神話でもなく、虚勢でもなく、最後までやり遂げることの一生のコミットメントです。


上の言葉は私も信条としていることです。ものを書く人は、自分の全てを書いてその中に住みたいと願っていると思うのです。

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