snow-tower - The Monday Morning Memo

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As I wandered about the world I constantly met foreign writers who went out of their way to assure me that whereas they considered themselves as good as Hemingway, they did not want to mimic him. They had their own style and were satisfied with it.

And I began to wonder why they never said: “I don’t want to write like Faulkner …” -or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe, or Sartre, or Camus.

It was always Hemingway they didn’t want to copy, which made me suspect that that’s precisely what the lot of them were doing.

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- James Michener, in the Introduction to The Dangerous Summer by Ernest Hemingway (1985)

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