Interviews, Writers, Quotes, Fiction, Poetry - Paris Review. 21, Ernest Hemingway. Ernest Hemingway, ca. 1939.
Photograph by Lloyd Arnold You go to the races? Yes, occasionally. Then you read the Racing Form ... There you have the true art of fiction. —Conversation in a Madrid café, May 1954 Ernest Hemingway writes in the bedroom of his house in the Havana suburb of San Francisco de Paula. The bedroom is on the ground floor and connects with the main room of the house. The room is divided into two alcoves by a pair of chest-high bookcases that stand out into the room at right angles from opposite walls. It is on the top of one of these cluttered bookcases—the one against the wall by the east window and three feet or so from his bed—that Hemingway has his “work desk”—a square foot of cramped area hemmed in by books on one side and on the other by a newspaper-covered heap of papers, manuscripts, and pamphlets. A working habit he has had from the beginning, Hemingway stands when he writes. Are these hours during the actual process of writing pleasurable?
Very. Of course. No. A room of one’s own, by Virginia Woolf. Why I Write. From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer.
Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books. I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeable mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my schooldays. I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued.
However, throughout this time I did in a sense engage in literary activities. So hee with difficulty and labour hard Moved on: with difficulty and labour hee.
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