Ernest Hemingway, 1939
[photo: wikipedia]
I’ve always been fond of Hemingway, blame it on Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. Hemingway the lover of Spain, the journalist-turned-novelist, that is… I dislike the bullfighting and other macho behaviour. His ability to frame a quotation is legendary, my favourite is:-
“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
If it were only that simple.
Read the first paragraphs of The Old Man and the Sea and To Have and Have Not.
‘The Old Man and the Sea’ by Ernest Hemingway [UK: Arrow] Buy now
See these other famous people, reading & writing:-
Agatha Christie
Jonathan Franzen
William Golding
And if you’d like to tweet a link to THIS post, here’s my suggested tweet:
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There is one sentence in my manuscript that I am absolutely, totally, satisfied with. It’s the other thousands of sentences that are my problem.
I know what you mean. The other quote that I sort of agree with, but which also makes me cringe when I sit down to write, is ‘write it one sentence at a time’. Duh! SD
I’m with you on that one 🙂
I like Hemingway’s short stories best. ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ is my favorite novel. 🙂
I’m quite fond of A Farewell to Arms. SD
I LOVE Hemingway! Adore “The Killers”! 🙂
I don’t know ‘The Killers’ but have put it on my to-read list. Thx. SD