Ernest Hemingway on Writing Audiobook (Free)

An assemblage of reflections on the type of writing and the writer in one the best American writers of the twentieth century.

Throughout Hemingway’s career being a writer, he maintained that it was bad luck to speak about writing—that it takes off “whatever butterflies have on their wings and the arrangement of hawk’s feathers if you show it or talk about it.”

Not surprisingly belief, by the end of his life he had done precisely what he intended never to do. In his books and tales, in words about Ernest Hemingway on Writing to editors, close friends, fellow artists, and critics, in interviews and in commissioned content about them, Hemingway wrote often about writing. And he wrote as well so that as incisively about the topic as any writer who ever lived…

This book contains Hemingway’s reflections on the type of the writer and on elements of the writer’s life, including specific and helpful advice to writers in the craft of writing, work habits, and discipline. The Hemingway personality comes through generally wisdom, wit, laughter, and insight, and in his insistence over the integrity of the writer and of the occupation itself.

—Through the Preface by Larry W. Phillips