About Josh Silverstein Expertise I will answer questions relating to Ernest Hemingway's life or literature. I can also help with quotation source requests. No homework questions please.
Experience Mr. Silverstein holds a B.A. in English Literature and has been studying the life and works of Ernest Hemingway for the past ten years. His major work on Hemingway is titled, "The Importance of Being Ernest: Hemingway's Truth in Fiction and his Fiction in Truth." He is also author of "Hemingway: Alive and Well Online," an article exploring Hemingway's presence and position in the online community. He is the founder of "Timeless Hemingway," an award winning web site devoted to Ernest Hemingway.
I am searching for a quote by or about Hemingway for my senior research paper. I was wondering if you could help me find any of the sources to the following quotations. Thank you.
1. “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
2. “All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”-Hemingway
3. “The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”
4. “Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
5. “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.”
6. “My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
7. “I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.”
Answer Hello,
Please see brackets below for sources.
1. “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
[I have never been able to attribute this quote to Hemingway.]
2. “All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”-Hemingway
[Quotation is from April 9, 1945 letter to Mary Welsh.
Reprinted in *Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917-1961*
edited by Carlos Baker, page 583. Page numbers based on hardcover edition and will vary by edition.]
3. “The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”
[Quotation is from chapter 43, page 490 of *For Whom the Bell Tolls* (1940). Page numbers based on hardcover edition and will vary by edition.]
4. “Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
[Quotation is from the foreword of A. E. Hotchner's book, *Papa Hemingway*, page xxvi. Page numbers based on hardcover edition and will vary by edition.]
5. “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.”
[Quotation is from January 23, 1953 letter to Charles Poore.
Reprinted in *Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917-1961*
edited by Carlos Baker, pages 800-801. Page numbers based on hardcover edition and will vary by edition.]
6. “My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
[I have never been able to attribute this quote to Hemingway.]
7. “I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.”
[Quotation is from the sketch titled "Une Generation Perdue." Page 48 of *A Moveable Feast* (1964). Page numbers based on hardcover edition and will vary by edition.]
