Getting The Words Right

Interviewer: "How much rewriting do you do?"

Ernest Hemingway: "I rewrote the ending of Farewell to Arms, the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied."

Interviewer: "Was there some technical problem there? What was it that stumped you?"

Hemingway: "Getting the words right."


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