Imbued with Hemingway's wit, wisdom, and humor, "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" offers essential advice from an author who has had an astounding impact on contemporary American fiction.

Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer in the twentieth century, and for his efforts he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Ernest Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. As part of the expatriate community in 1920s Paris, the former journalist and World War I ambulance driver began a career that led to international fame. He covered the Spanish Civil War, portraying it in fiction in his brilliant novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, and he subsequently covered World War II. His classic novella The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. He died in 1961.

Contents

Foreword by Charles Scribner, Jr.

Preface

1. What Writing Is and Does

2. The Qualities of a Writer

3. The Pain and Pleasure of Writing

4. What to Write About

5. Advice to Writers

6. Working Habits

7. Characters

8. Knowing What to Leave Out

9. Obscenity

10. Titles

11. Other Writers

12. Politics

13. The Writer's Life