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Ernest Hemingway on Writing
by Ernest Hemingway, Larry W. Phillips, Charles Scribner Jr.
Continuing my summer obsession with Hemingway...this is a compilation of Hemingway's own words about writing...from interviews, from letters, and from Moveable Feast...One true sentence is there...so are several entries about bad words and how to use them to characterize...
Many entries are from letters to F Scott Fitzgerald...they must have corresponded for years. He was so frustrated with FSF's squandering his talents, and it shows. He rails at FSF to be true to his gift, to write from his heart, to trust himself. What a complicated friendship that must have been.
Several entries are about and to an author who wanted to write a biography of him. He absolutely hated the idea of having his personal life laid bare for all to see...while he was alive and able to read the book. I don't know what, if anything, happened to that particular book.
He writes about other authors and books he loved and hated.
I LOVED the entries about OLD MAN, my favorite book, the one I know best, since I've taught it so often. He laughs at the critics who read all kinds of symbolism into the book: The old man was an old man, the boy was a boy. The sharks were sharks...not, as he was told, literary critics.
Hemingway felt so competitive as an author...he gives other young authors the advice to read the old masters as a way of figuring out who they can 'beat'. Not a surprise for someone as fierce as he was.
I think the best entries came from an interview with George Plimpton. I love Plimpton's ability to disarm subjects and get them to open up...will track this piece down if I can.
I'll go back and collect all my highlighted passages...they're safe on the kindle for the moment. As so often happens, this book has inspired another purchase: The Selected Letters...I want to get to the source of that friendship with Fitzgerald...
My summer with Hemingway and Hadley and FSF has been so rewarding.
Many entries are from letters to F Scott Fitzgerald...they must have corresponded for years. He was so frustrated with FSF's squandering his talents, and it shows. He rails at FSF to be true to his gift, to write from his heart, to trust himself. What a complicated friendship that must have been.
Several entries are about and to an author who wanted to write a biography of him. He absolutely hated the idea of having his personal life laid bare for all to see...while he was alive and able to read the book. I don't know what, if anything, happened to that particular book.
He writes about other authors and books he loved and hated.
I LOVED the entries about OLD MAN, my favorite book, the one I know best, since I've taught it so often. He laughs at the critics who read all kinds of symbolism into the book: The old man was an old man, the boy was a boy. The sharks were sharks...not, as he was told, literary critics.
Hemingway felt so competitive as an author...he gives other young authors the advice to read the old masters as a way of figuring out who they can 'beat'. Not a surprise for someone as fierce as he was.
I think the best entries came from an interview with George Plimpton. I love Plimpton's ability to disarm subjects and get them to open up...will track this piece down if I can.
I'll go back and collect all my highlighted passages...they're safe on the kindle for the moment. As so often happens, this book has inspired another purchase: The Selected Letters...I want to get to the source of that friendship with Fitzgerald...
My summer with Hemingway and Hadley and FSF has been so rewarding.