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432 Hemingway's One True Sentence (with Mark Cirino)

The History of Literature

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Hemmingway's Notes

John cheever wrote in his note book that hemmingway shot himself yesterday morning. Sk: I found it thrilling that he was telling me about writers and what they read, and how they borrow and learn from other writers. And so i just loved that he was thinking about it on that level where he jotted down for him af an example that wasn't even one that he was taking from hemmingway, but one that, to him, exemplified hemmingway. sk: Good writing intensifies the feeling of being alive the human experience.

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