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Ernest Hemingway held that talking about writing brought bad luck, yet over his career he discussed the subject again and again: in his fiction, in interviews, in commissioned articles and in letters to friends, critics, editors and other artists. The collection gathers those remarks into one volume. It covers what a writer is and how a writer lives, with specific advice on craft, work habits and discipline. His wit and humor come through, along with his insistence that writers and their profession keep their integrity.
Brain Pickings founder Maria Popova included it among 9 books on reading and writing, noting that Hemingway, though he thought it unlucky to discuss writing, wrote about it often across novels, letters and interviews.
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Maria Popova (Founder/brainpickings.org)
Ernest Hemingway famously maintained that it was bad luck to talk about writing. Yet, over the course of his career, he frequently wrote about writing in his novels and short stories, his letters to editors, friends, critics, and lovers, in interviews, and even in articles specifically commissioned on the subject. In Ernest Hemingway on Writing, editor Larry W. Phillips culls the finest, wittiest, most profound of Hemingway’s reflections on writing, the nature of the writer, and the elements of the writer’s life. The slender volume packs insights on everything from work habits to mood management to discipline to knowing what to leave out, delivered with Hemingway’s unmistakable personality and his signature zeal for integrity.
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