![]() ![]() But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining, and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused. ![]() ![]() I hope you will find some that you like.In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. The Fifth Column and the First Forty-nine Stories (1938) collected all of the short stories Ernest Hemingway had published up to that date and his only. From Ernest Hemingway's Preface: 'There are many kinds of stories in this book. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and s. I hope you will find some that you like.In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. Ernest Hemingway is a cultural iconan archetype of rugged masculinity, a romantic ideal of the intellectual in perpetual exilebut, to his countless readers, Hemingway remains a literary force much greater than his image. From Ernest Hemingway's Preface: 'There are many kinds of stories in this book. The definitive short story collection that established Ernest Hemingway's literary reputation, originally published in 1938. ![]()
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