“What did I know best that I had not written about and lost? What did I know about truly and care for the most? There was no choice at all.”

A Moveable Feast, about starting to write “Big Two-Hearted River”

“To me heaven would be a bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in. . . . ”

—Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald Burguete, Spain, July 1, 1925

“The Gulf Stream is alive with fish.”

—Letter to Maxwell Perkins Key West, January 8, 1929