I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.
Interpretation
Hemingway emphasizes the importance of different writing techniques for different aspects of storytelling.
In this quote, Hemingway conveys his personal approach to writing, illustrating the contrast between the physicality of longhand writing and the mechanical nature of typewriting. He suggests that the tactile experience of writing by hand brings a deeper connection to the work, while using a typewriter for dialogue captures the rhythm and cadence of spoken language, highlighting the significance of form and technique in storytelling.
In practice
A writing workshop discussing the different methods of drafting and editing.
He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.
How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
I had to say to myself, 'I haven't written enough about blackness, yet it's part of my consciousness and my lived experience.' I had to get over that anxiety of 'I haven't done this before.'
I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story of my father and me to let you know I am qualified to be a comedian.
As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.
I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.
Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.
All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.
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