Expert: Josh Silverstein - 1/5/2005

Question
Wow!  I love your website!  Thank you so much!

My question:  Where can I find documentation that backs up the fact that Hemingway wrote standing up, 8 hours a day, and was happy if he put out 50 good words a day?

Thank you!

--Mary Ann Kost

Answer
Hi Mary,

The following should be helpful.

"On a shelf by the bed is the Royal portable he uses, typing standing up."

     -- In "A Journey to Hemingway" by Rob Harling. Reprinted in  "Conversations with Ernest Hemingway" edited by  Matthew J. Bruccoli

"Not as fast a writer as you might think from his easy style, Mr. Hemingway works on a strict schedule that produces an average of 500 to 1,000 words a day. 'I start in at seven in the morning,' he says, 'and I always quit when I'm going good, so that I'll be able to pick right up again the next day.' "

    -- In "On the Books" by Roger Bourne Linscott. Reprinted in  "Conversations with Ernest Hemingway" edited by  Matthew J. Bruccoli


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