Ernest Hemingway was a prolific author with a prodigious thirst for a now-famous cocktail. Supposedly, he consumed it 16 times in a single drinking session.

Just the name Ernest Hemingway conjures up ideas about some of the best and most succinct writing of all time. But you can't compare yourself to legends.

The Nobel Prize-winning author wrote: "Even when hope feels distant, we keep moving ... We fall to our knees — but we get up." ...