A Moveable Feast

In case you've never read Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast", you should check it out. It has lots of references to his writing approach which easily translates into the painting process (but they are stated through Ernest's cool journalistic style while living in Pais in the 1920's.)

For example, in the book he says to himself, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know." So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there. It was easy then because there was always one true sentence that I knew or had seen or had heard someone say. If I started to write elaborately, or like someone introducing or presenting something, I found that I could cut that scrollwork or ornament out and throw it away and start with the first true simple declarative sentence I had written. Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was a good and severe discipline."

And there are a bunch of references to painters (such as Cezanne and Picasso) and their specific influences on his writing at the time. Cool stuff if you're into that sort of thing.