{"id":40909,"date":"2023-03-13T06:30:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T17:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=40909"},"modified":"2023-03-12T20:38:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T07:38:00","slug":"a-writing-quote-from-ernest-hemingway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2023\/03\/13\/a-writing-quote-from-ernest-hemingway\/","title":{"rendered":"A Writing Quote from Ernest Hemingway"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\u201cWrite hard and clear about what hurts.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

~ Ernest Hemingway, 1899 – 1961<\/p>\n

~*~<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve featured another Ernest Hemingway quote<\/strong><\/a> before, but this is also a good one.<\/p>\n

I believe it\u2019s another way of saying that it\u2019s important to write stories that really matter, as well as to entertain.<\/p>\n

\"\"I also detect resonances to Haruki Murakami\u2019s<\/a> observation that:<\/p>\n

\u201cI like to write. I like to choose the right word, I like to write the right sentence\u2026 in the right place. That kind of engineering is exhausting, though: a daily trip to the \u201cbasement of the mind\u201d and back up again. \u2026You have to dedicate yourself to that work. You have no extra space to do something else.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Hemingway is talking about subject matter, Murakami about writing process. The overlap lies in the absolute, unswerving commitment to the writing as a whole. (Mostly novels in the case of both authors, but also shorter form works.)<\/p>\n

\"\"Author Kate Forsyth<\/a> calls it \u201cdangerous writing\u201d<\/em> and I suspect she is quite right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWrite hard and clear about what hurts.\u201d ~ Ernest Hemingway, 1899 – 1961 ~*~ I\u2019ve featured another Ernest Hemingway quote before, but this is also a good one. I believe it\u2019s another way of saying that it\u2019s important to write stories that really matter, as well as to entertain. I also detect resonances to Haruki […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-writing","category-general","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40911,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40909\/revisions\/40911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}