Tag: A Farewell to Arms

July 15, 2015 / Vickie Lester

“That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best — make it all up — but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.” Hemingway

June 19, 2015 / Vickie Lester

“Is emotional stability necessary to write well?” Paris Review – The Art of Fiction No. 21, Ernest Hemingway (1954)

INTERVIEWER Is emotional stability necessary to write well? You told me once that you could only write well when you were in love. Could you expound on that a bit more? HEMINGWAY What a question. But full marks for trying. You can write any time people will leave you alone…

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April 29, 2014 / Vickie Lester

“Grace under pressure,” and no, Hemingway was not referring to me…still swept up in the book thing.

April 29, 2014 / Vickie Lester

“The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life — and one is as good as the other.” Hemingway

April 17, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Did you know that Ben Hecht thought that movies crippled the mind of the American people and destroyed cultured thought…

I wonder what he would have made of the Internet? Let’s roll it back a little. Mr. Hecht started as a Chicago journalist, he was lured to Hollywood by easy money, as related in his autobiography: The telegram he delivered on this spring day in 1925 came from the unknown…

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January 13, 2013 / Vickie Lester

DAVID O. SELZNICK

David O. Selznick at the Grauman’s Chinese Theater premiere of “A Farewell to Arms” starring his second wife, Jennifer Jones, and Rock Hudson. December, 1957. YOU DON’T OWN ME, Chapter 12. Bigger Brighter, up at 11 Pacific Time…