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Ernest Hemingway on Writing by Ernest Hemingway, Larry W. Phillips, Charles Scribner Jr.
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This slim volume is simply a collection of compiled quotes on writing from Hemingway's novels, stories, letters, interviews, etc. -- that's it. Main takeaways: war is the best subject to write about, Hemingway was an atrocious speller, and he had somewhat of an obsession about "beating" other writers. 

I bought this book two years ago as a souvenir from the Hemingway House in Key West, which is well worth the visit even if you (like me) are not a big Hemingway fan. (This will likely be the last Hemingway that I read -- he's just not for me.) I'm not sure how useful Hemingway's thoughts will be to my own writing (and I don't think I had high expectations that they would be) but the book elicits a nice memory nonetheless.