Ernest Hemingway, letter of advice to a young writer, reported in Malcolm Cowley, “Mister Papa”, LIFE magazine (January 10, 1949), Volume 26, No. 2, p. 90. A longer version appears in Hemingway’s Across the River and Into the Trees (1967): “When people talk listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling”.