What do you think about this Ernest Hemingway's work?

Oh – I like it!

It has always made me sad, though it renews my awe of his writing ability every time I read it.

Love me, love Hemingway.

(I had forgotten tha that really was Hemingway’s story.)

This is the one that usually kicks off a round of six-word stories.

It’s like distilled Hemingway, Hemingway at his most Hemingway-ish.

I think he must have known that when he wrote it. It’s like he’s winking at himself.

Is it a comedy? Because it sounds like one.

Six short words… both a complete story and one begging to be written.

And, as Hemingway once said, There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at the typewriter and bleed.

@Pachyderm_In_The_Room:

“There’s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.”
― Red Smith

@Pachyderm_In_The_Room & @Jeruba I think you might both find this quote investigation interesting. It looks like the metaphor goes back at least as far as Paul Gallico. It seems plausible to me that Smith might have been paraphrasing Gallico when he made his statement.

Well, that’s interesting, @glacial. Sometime in the seventies someone gave me a book of quotations for writers, and that’s where I saw it attributed to Red Smith. At any rate, it seems to be a notion that writers can relate to—even those who’ve never touched a typewriter.

@Jeruba and @glacial. Whooda thunk the quote I found online attributed to Hemingway would start its own baby thread? Shows what can happen to words in their circuitous route from mouth to print. Still, it’s one of my favorite maxims.