How to Be a Writer: Hemingway’s Advice to Aspiring Authors

ARTICLE BY MARIA POPOVA VIA BRAINPICKINGS

As a writer you should not judge. You should understand.

Ernest Hemingwayhas contributed a great deal tothe collected advice of great writers, from hisfamous admonition against the dangers of egoto his short and stellarNobel Prize acceptance speech. But some of his finest wisdom springs to life in this excerpt from his 1967 nonfiction pieceBy-Line, found in the altogether excellentHemingway on Writing(public library) — a compilation of the celebrated au...