In 1934, Arnold Samuelson hitchhiked from Minnesota to Key West in an unlikely — but successful — attempt to become Ernest Hemingway's protege. Samuelson recorded his experiences in a manuscript discovered after his death and excerpted by Maria Popova: "The main thing is to know when to stop. Don’t wait till you’ve written yourself out. When you’re still going good and you come to an interesting place and you know what’s going to happen next, that’s the time to stop."
January 17, 2016
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