"It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't."

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The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

— Ernest Hemingway