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The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
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In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.
Now it is necessary to get to the grindstone again. I would like to live long enough to write three more novels and twenty-five more stories. I know some pretty good ones.
With his natural, clear, direct and terse prose, Hemingway is one of the greatest short story writers.
Now it is necessary to get to the grindstone again. I would like to live long enough to write three more novels and twenty-five more stories. I know some pretty good ones.
With his natural, clear, direct and terse prose, Hemingway is one of the greatest short story writers.
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"If you hadn’t known him pretty well and if you hadn’t seen the terrain where he was going to attack tomorrow, you would have thought he was very angry about something. I guess somewhere inside of himself he was angry, very angry. You get angry about a lot of things and you, yourself, dying uselessly is one of them. But then I guess angry is about the best way that you can be when you attack."
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Jayjaypl wrote: "how good is it?"I like his writing style and so far it's good. It's a big book and i am at the beginning.
The hardcover is currently on my night table. :)
Tom wrote: "The hardcover is currently on my night table. :)"I read 2 or 3 stories a day, depending on their length.
"With his natural, clear, direct and terse prose, Hemingway is one of the greatest short story writers." - Without a doubt!
Chris wrote: ""With his natural, clear, direct and terse prose, Hemingway is one of the greatest short story writers." - Without a doubt!"I also love his novels. But a short story is very difficult to write and Hemingway's talent is in saying a lot in a couple of pages and his goosebumps-inducing endings.
Oh great! It has all his short stories.
Gaurav wrote: "Oh great! It has all his short stories."Yes, and also the two stories that later were published as the book 'To Have and Have Not' and a few uncompleted ones.
