Writing 2203
Author in the Spotlight: Hemingway’s Words
Select ​one​ of the following quotations penned by Hemingway in various works.
Take inspiration from it and use it as the starting point for a short story of your
own OR include it somewhere in your narrative. Your story should be 750 words in
length and have a beginning, a middle, and an end. A clearly defined plot, good
character development, setting, and conflict are a must to help move your story
along.
❖ “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
❖ “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you
know?”
❖ “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
❖ “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a
crime.”
❖ “You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”
❖ “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever
you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable
feast.”
❖ “In order to write about life first you must live it.”
❖ “I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss
you good night — and there's a lot of difference.”
❖ “The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.”
❖ “Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do
with that there is.”
❖ “All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first
time.”
❖ “How did you go bankrupt?” “Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
❖ “Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”
❖ “Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.”
❖ “No one you love is ever truly lost.”
❖ “I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have
resolution.”
❖ “Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that.
You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
There’s nothing to that.”