{"id":3342,"date":"2012-06-10T11:59:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T15:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=3342"},"modified":"2012-06-10T11:59:04","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T15:59:04","slug":"hemingway-on-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=3342","title":{"rendered":"Hemingway on writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Ernest-Hemingway4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3343\" title=\"Ernest-Hemingway4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Ernest-Hemingway4-300x249.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"388\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On answering a question about \u201chow\u201d he writes, whether with an outline or notes, Ernest Hemingway stated:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>No, I just start it. Fiction is inventing out of what knowledge you have. If you invent successfully, it is more true than if you try to remember it. A big lie is more plausible than truth. People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 From A.E. Hotchner\u2019s <em>Papa Hemingway <\/em>\u2013 Chapter 11 Ketchum, 1958<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On answering a question about \u201chow\u201d he writes, whether with an outline or notes, Ernest Hemingway stated: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No, I just start it. Fiction is inventing out of what knowledge you have. If you invent successfully, it is more true than if you try to remember it. A big lie is more plausible than truth&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[42,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3345,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions\/3345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}